All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 33
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HSJ Knowledge#StopPUDay2013: a million tweets for hospital transformation
#StopPUDay2013: eliminating avoidable pressure ulcers
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CommentMichael White: Constant reform is reminiscent of Thatcher
Rarely a week passes without a major health announcement
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Blogs
Party time
Special End Game love goes to the comms firm which got in early with our first Christmas party invitation this year. In the seasonal spirit of goodwill, we won’t name it.Their bash takes place on 26 November – for those of you who are no good at maths, that’s very ...
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CommentLawyers are not just ambulance chasers
Clinical negligence law can help increase transparency
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Blogs
Jermey Hunt has jumped the shark
A new prison sentence for wilful neglect is an unnecessary gimmick
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Blogs
Monitor-vember
End Game has little interest in charity, so don’t try it on.But we were forced admit that Monitor press officer Sonya Cullington brightened up what may otherwise have risked being a turgid morning press conference about the regulator’s review of walk-in centre closures by wearing a moustache.What japes! It was ...
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: September 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one year waits, with links to all the detail by organisation.
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CommentCancer patients' journeys need joining up
Integrated care can be a positive for people with cancer
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Blogs
Waiting times steady in September
The position on English waiting times remained steady in September. But nearly half the country’s one year waiters were reported at just one hospital.
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CommentBuild housing into integrated care
Housing investment has benefits for health budgets and patient care
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CommentLevel playing fields do not always help all players
Private providers say the field is skewed against them
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CommentReaders’ letters – 15 November 2013
Readers say getting it right for diabetes can act as an exemplar, while scrapping the innovation fund is a ‘devasting blow’
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CommentMichael White: Posh boys don't always have cold hearts
The tabloids will happily turn on Hunt and Cameron
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Blogs
Stony silence
Savings plans! Contentious stuff! What do we cut, sorry, do more efficiently?Each year HSJ asks each of the 140 general hospital trusts in England about the size and shape of their savings programme.What, then, are we to make of our interactions with one trust that will remain nameless (not really, ...
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Blogs
Why do we keep paying off the same senior managers?
Making managers redundant over and over again is costing the NHS a fortune
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CommentClinical leadership must move beyond rhetoric
The NHS needs to fill the skills gap among clinicians
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CommentCompetition law can give the NHS the edge
Competition is not a distraction from better patient care
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Blogs
Gallic abstraction
Few NHS England board members are better versed in the pithy soundbite than the exuberant Tim Kelsey.Getting your message across to Fleet Street means talking in simple, grandiose terms and repeating your main points in case the dozy journos are a bit hungover and slow on the uptake, as Mr ...
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CommentClinicians aren't 'silent' over care quality – we're leading change
David Oliver hits back at comments from CQC chair David Prior
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CommentThe path to a robust NHS starts with making it 'anti-fragile'
But the journey will not be easy