All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 21
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CommentOne year on: the mood of the healthcare finance community
Taking the temperature post-reform
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HSJ KnowledgeHospital engine parts need correct sequencing to really motor
McKinsey’s John Drew continues his series of videos on hospitals’ uphill struggle
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BlogsI don’t want to be a consumer, I'm happy to be a patient
Doctor may know best on medical decisions, but they should still treat patients as adults
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CommentMichael White: Let go of 'command and control'
Jeremy Hunt can’t stop interfering in the health service
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Blogs
Big hairy audacious cliche
End Game was chuffed to see Ara Darzi was returning to health policy world as chair of the London Health Commission, and sincerely hopes that his high quality thoughts actually get listened to this time.Thumbing through the commission’s recently published evidence summary, we also noted another blast from the recent ...
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Blogs
A new boss to navigate us through the next few years
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens must be prepared to change direction should he find himself going the wrong way
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CommentStephen Thornton: The NHS of the past was a foreign country
The ‘good old days’ never existed
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Blogs
Daughters of fortune
The world of finance is more commonly associated with mammon and the love of money, aka the root of all evil, than with holiness and the simple life of devotion to the Lord.So imagine our surprise when we learned that a group of nuns called the Congregation of the Daughters ...
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CommentWhy we need a single budget for health and social care
Meeting care needs needs hard choices
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CommentThe charge of the membership brigade
Call for a National Health and Care Service membership fee
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HSJ Knowledge#Transformation2019: Transformation game changers
Predicting the big developments for hospitals and leadership in the next five years
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Blogs
In the NHS you need political skills to survive
The casualty rate among chief executives is rising. To survive they need to hone their political skills. But what does it mean to be politically aware and sensitive?
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CommentProtecting the public purse: how independent will future public spending audits be?
The demise of the Audit Commission
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Blogs
The Nicholson Index
In one of his last speeches as NHS England boss, Sir David Nicholson gave his final assessment of the reformed commissioning sector, a year post-transition.Clinical commissioning groups were given a strong eight marks out of 10, and credited them for the fact that the system had not rapidly collapsed in ...