All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 63
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CommentMichael White: Burns resumes battle with NHS procurement
The private sector is not a magic wand.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: levelling the provider playing field
HSJ’s financial columnist on ‘sharks’, ‘ugly sisters’ and social enterprise.
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CommentPatient preferences matter: another call for doctors to change
Do clinicians really know what patients want?
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Blogs
Engagement matters - here's why
“Evidence-based common sense” was how Peter Lees described the Fund’s new report on leadership in the NHS at our Summit on 23 May. The report draws on evidence demonstrating the relationship between staff engagement and organisational performance to make the case for a new style of leadership. If the NHS ...
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Playing to the whistle?
Are whistleblowers good people trying to do the right thing or are they persuing their own agenda, just trying to get someone else into trouble because they don’t like them or want their job?
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Comment'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
Professor Chris Ham on leadership for engagment.
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CommentMichael White: will information strategy deliver on its promise?
And will it bring healthcare IT into the 21st centrury?
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CommentMedia Watch: rare agreement on good policy move
The Department of Health sold its NHS information strategy to the national press with the promise of patients being able to book GP appointments online.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: immigrants don't hurt the NHS; dentists do
Is NHS Protect targeting low-hanging fruit?
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Integrated care and why the NHS needs more deviant leaders
Local leaders are ahead of the game, writes Chris Ham.
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The fall of the Roman Empire
Following a humiliating defeat, those in charge blame the rank and file.
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CommentMichael White: gap between Lansley and nurses threatens to grow
Voting for extreme parties could happen here if patience runs out.
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Blogs
Commissioning board must safeguard the future of secure care services
The Commissioning Board takes over responsibility for specialised services in April 2013 and needs to focus on designing a system without the blockage problems of today if it is to commissioning secure care successfully.
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Holding a mirror up to the managers
“Mirror mirror on the wall, am I a good manager after all?”
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CommentWill economic problems finally fix London health care?
And, can London focus on the future when the present is so tough?
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CommentMichael White: driving down the cost of drug deals
The NHS should have little sympathy for Big Pharma.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: new bailouts required for new deficits
One dastardly deficit decision and where it got us.