All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 59
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CommentHas payment by results had its day?
King’s Fund report says tariff system is not fit for purpose
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Blogs
Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
Have you a management philosophy? Mine is if its not explicitly against the rules then I can probably get away with it.As a senior manager I told a large gathering of managers that they should not be asking HR or finance for permission to do what they wanted to do ...
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Healthcare in the US election: fact, fiction and Big Bird
While the focus of the 2008 US election was healthcare (and the colour of the candidates’ ties), the 2012 election is all about money (and the colour of the candidates’ ties).Over the past few weeks, money and jobs have typically dominated the presidential and vice presidential debates. That said, healthcare ...
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Winterbourne View was shocking but hardly surprising
Some people will be genuinely shocked at the prison sentences handed out to staff who worked at the Winterbourne View home for people with learning disabilities.
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CommentMichael White: never say never
We have heard a lot this week about “never events”, which aren’t supposed to happen in the NHS.
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CommentA perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
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CommentAt last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
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CommentMichael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
Labour are asking tough questions about the affordability of Scotland’s healthcare
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First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham reflects on attempts to reconfigure services in the capital
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Blogs
Winter pressures, week by week
Good planning and monitoring can reduce the risk of crises this winter. We look at a worked example of week-by-week interactive profiling for beds and waiting times.
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The blip is over: waiting times break new records
Waiting times resumed their downward trend, breaking new records for best-ever long-waits performance.
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Harassment has not gone away
The whole Jimmy Savile scandal has made people think about sexual harassment at work.The workplace has changed since the 70s and 80s and many people assumed that even if there is still a pay gap between men and women sexual harassment was a thing of the past, but it is ...
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The shocking truth about anonymous comments
You will often find on HSJ, and other professional publications, people responding to articles anonymously. Those who don’t put their names to their comments are invariably being rude, offensive or cynical.I am often shocked that professionals, or those who read professional journals, would express themselves in this way. I can’t ...
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Culture is as intangible as the air we breathe
Senior managers are fond of saying we need to change the culture of the organisation.They are saying it now in response to the introduction of commissioning and greater use of the private sector in the NHS. It has been repeatedly stated in local authorities as part of efficiency initiatives and ...
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CommentHow Hunt stole the PM's thunder
Jeremy Hunt ‘s abortion row stymied Cameron’s soothing NHS words
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Blogs
NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
Absurd restrictions on FT income have at last been lifted
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Blogs
Equal opportunities under the new CCGs
The first week in October is a landmark for the NHS.This is the week when the new NHS commissioning board takes on its new responsibilities.The board has a massive budget of £60bn, most of which will be given to clinical commissioning groups for them to plan and pay for their ...
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Stampede for the exit
I am one of those people who says “I told you so”. The NHS Commissioning board has identified that it is struggling to find suitable people to fill its senior vacancies and there is a risk of posts remaining vacant.The NHS reforms have so far cut 18,000 senior posts. The ...
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CommentSally Gainsbury: conspiracy and coincidence
Could a compromise be in the offing over training budget allocation reforms?