All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 57
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Comment
We must back social investment pioneers
A new form of healthcare needs a fresh finance model
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: November 2012 data
The local picture on 18 week and one-year waiting times, for every English provider and commissioner, updated with the latest (November 2012) data.
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LeaderBurnham’s radicalism resets care debate
Burnham proposes a system with more local democratic control
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Blogs
Helping tomorrow's healthcare innovators to thrive
As Jeremy Hunt sets more technology targets for the NHS, it’s time for the service to both help its own and look to others for the solutions to its problems.
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CommentMichael White: how former ministers keep busy
Paul Burstow wants the government to do more for carers
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Blogs
Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in today’s NHS?
League tables, naming and shaming and austerity have put more pressure on managers in the public sector, making if difficult for some to remain honest and open.
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Blogs
Commissioning board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
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Comment
Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?
We must reimagine the wider health and social care system
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Blogs
NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Small improvements meant new record-bests for long-waiters in November.
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CommentSize vs quality? Examining hospital mergers
Reviewing the evidence into the effectiveness of mergers
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Blogs
Leadership lessons from the Thin White Duke
The NHS is seeking to revive a familiar refrain with a return to “heroic leadership”.
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Blogs
One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it’s essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.
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CommentRegulating managers is the wrong response to Mid Staffs
Poor managers are a symptom of a poorly governed system
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Blogs
Lessons from Boston on integrated care
Pamela Garside reports back from her trip to the US in winter last year to explore “value-based healthcare”.
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CommentCommissioning board makes its move
Is the board’s rejection of the CCG funding formula a declaration of independence?
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CommentStaff should be protected from 'never events'
The safety of healthcare workers should also be a factor on the never events list
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Blogs
More management, less leadership please
Not everyone can be a leader but many more can be managers and take greater control of organisational life around them.
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Blogs
Military-style leadership doesn't suit the public sector
Why the armed forces’ show of force leadership style is the wrong type for the NHS and local government.
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Blogs
The prospects for health and social care in 2013
The pressure and demands on the NHS in 2013 will be so great it will be impossible to duck the big questions about what kind of health and care system we are willing to fund.
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Blogs
A new look for NHS leaders in 2013
Will the appearance of NHS managers follow trends from the Middle East in the coming year?