All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 64
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Blogs
Clinician involvement is key - but keep an eye on the cost
It is vital that clinicials are involved in setting new organisation structures and plans, writes Dr Jonathan Fielden, but they must be committed to the cause.
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CommentMichael White: power is there to be taken by the bold
Don’t assume CCGs know what their “assumed liberty” means.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the reinvestment riddle
Where is the process for reinvesting the Nicholson efficiency savings?
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CommentUnemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
Public health work at one primary care trust has shown how unemployment could have massive impact on a generation’s life expectancy, and why it’s important they get back to work. John Middleton reports.
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Blogs
Devaluing social work with adults will cause huge problems
The NHS stands to lose big if local authorities begin cutting the number of social workers helping older patients and people with disabilities.
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Blogs
The long view on long waits
A short history of waiting times: dramatic improvements under Labour, and a wobble followed by renewed improvement under the Coalition.
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Blogs
Inspections can only hope to inspire managers into stopping abuse
Inspectors can’t realistically hope to “catch out” staff who abuse care home residents; it’s up to the managers to ensure their employees are all delivering good care.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: acute hospitals are living in Monitor's 'downside'
The regulator’s effciency savings target is worsening.
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CommentMichael White: the battle over waiting times is blurred by both sides
Headline-grabbing allegations are nothing a good figures massage can’t sort.
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Blogs
Your 18-week waits
18 week pressures fully analysed, by Trust and PCT, and by specialty: updated with February 2012 data.
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CommentMichael White: the many faces of Conservative ministers
Voters still don’t know which template fits the Tories best.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
The commissioning purse strings remain tightly tied.
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Blogs
How will doctors see fit to spend their budgets?
Doctors may have a few things on their wishlists now they are supposed to be in charge of commissioning services.
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CommentMichael White: abortion row gives a glimpse of politically disfiguring culture wars
Partisans are standing firm and playing politics.
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CommentDon Redding: give the public remote control
To create a mandate for the commissioning board that truly belongs to the public, the government should take a cue from the BBC.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
It seems to me that the more everyone agrees with the policy of integrated care, the further away the reality of integrated practice seems to be?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: quiet panic at the DH
It is, as they say, the quiet ones you have to watch.
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CommentTim Wilson: thirty good men and true
Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting.
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CommentMichael White: regional pay policy needs greater attention
The maximum fuss was over minimum pricing.