All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 66
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Simon Stevens: living to be 500, death by asteroid, and the inevitability of NHS reform
Health reformers should paint an inspiring vision of what progress could mean for patients and for health professionals rather than focus on the negatives that have necessitated it, says Simon Stevens.
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Alan Milburn: preparing for the perfect storm
Far from saving it, the challenges facing the NHS right now threaten to overwhelm the service, warns Alan Milburn.
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Peter Carter: tomorrow's NHS
The future of the NHS - patient care, sustainable services, preventing illness - depends not on competition, but collaboration and cooperation, argues Peter Carter.
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CommentStaffing issues warn of 'catastrophic' potential for South Central trust
University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust is reporting rising tensions over staffing levels, in spite of attempts to manage demand.
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Frank Field: how changing life chances will change the distribution of income
Frank Field on where Reform needs to focus its marked influence next.
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Mike Farrar: the politics of decentralisation
It takes courage to do more than talk a good game about decentralised health services. Will we look back on this time in 10 years and reflect on words or actions, asks NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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Julie Moore: a lot more for a lot less
Embracing innovation and setting long term ambitions have stood University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust in good stead to face the next 10 years, as chief executive Julie Moore explains.
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Blogs
The appeal of diversity - in theory
Embracing diversity in the workplace is now a common goal for every organisation. Achieving it is much trickier than the cosy theory behind it, however.
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Comment'We must look at today's challenges in terms of the NHS legacy'
What will you be remembered for?
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In NHS board games, no one is safe
Cynthia Bower’s resignation yesterday reminds us that the casualties of NHS boardroom powerplays go all the way to the top.
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Ali Parsa on great mistakes
I started my career as an academic. My research objective: to come up with a fluid dynamic formula to predict the complex interaction of waves and currents in turbulent flows.
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John Appleby on risking failure
In his book Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford retells a moving and excellent story about Archie Cochrane’s efforts to conduct a clinical trial in a German internment camp.
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Comment'Failure is necessary to breed success'
In his book Adapt, economist and journalist Tim Harford argues that failure is a necessary stage in success, and that experimentation and risk-taking are more effective than an overarching grand plan. Jennifer Taylor explores how these ideas could be translated to the NHS.
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CommentMichael White: DH tax revelations dash hopes for private and public harmony
Whitehall should not embrace a dodgy bonus culture.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: peculiar commissioning spend estimates could threaten surpluses
CCG funds may not be all they seems, says Sally Gainsbury.
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Blogs
Toynbee exposes the waiting list cheats
Polly Toynbee was right to expose waiting list cheats. But let’s fix the system, not start a witch-hunt against hospitals.
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CommentMore needs to be done to improve NHS health check scheme
The NHS health check scheme was welcomed by public health experts, but it has not closed inequalities as hoped, writes Paul Whitehouse.
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December's waiting times data - the local picture
Resources for analysing local waiting times pressures by trust, PCT and specialty.
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Is there an I in success? Busting the team building myth
A successful team of staff doesn’t mean that all of them have to be “team players”. In fact if they don’t get on with each other, they may get on better with the job in hand.