All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 67
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Blogs
Latest on 18 week waits: better in December
The December 2011 data for 18-week waits shows a continued improvement, not just in the total list size, but also in the number of long-waiters.
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CommentMichael White: the coalition may sustain heavy damage by seeing the bill through
What price Lansley’s eventual victory?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
Where is the detail on tariff for 2013 and beyond?
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Blogs
Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
Mark was angry, and the more he read, the angrier he got.
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Blogs
Imperial's waiting times holiday
Imperial is taking a “reporting break” on 18-week waiters. Bad idea.
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CommentDoes the cost of private healthcare exceed the benefit?
There is little doubt that private sector involvement in the NHS can bring benefits to the service, but, argues Ian Greener, the costs of the NHS supporting private healthcare could outweigh the return.
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Comment'There is inherent value in high quality outcomes data'
Patient outcomes can provide value no matter what the NHS looks like.
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Blogs
Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
Better managment of care for people with both physical and mental health conditions would improve lives and save the NHS billions of pounds.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: PFI bailouts are a sign of things to come
Those who are worried that the current top-down reconfiguration of the NHS will be the last of its kind received some good cheer last week, when the seven lucky recipients of its £1.5bn private finance initiative bailout scheme were announced.
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CommentCan transparency be the most powerful driver of healthcare improvement?
Transparency about performance may be a key precondition for improving service delivery and productivity in healthcare, write Tim Kelsey, Nicolaus Henke and Helen Whately.
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Blogs
PMQs and the truth about waiting times
David Cameron and Ed Miliband traded waiting time statistics over the dispatch box today. Who was right?
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Blogs
Are managers too busy to manage?
NHS managers are too busy to address staff health at work, according to this headline in HSJ. The report on the launch of the Healthcare Management unit code of conduct provided the opportunity for Dame Carol Black to express her disappointment and frustration at the lack of buy by the ...
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Blogs
Thinking differently about quality and cost
"Revolution begins with a transformation of consciousness". Innovation, doing things differently, is becoming a high priority activity in the NHS. Innovation has a critical pre-requisite: thinking differently. If we are going to sustain a universal healthcare system for future generations, we need to think differently about the ...
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CommentMichael White: humility is in short supply despite Lansley's 'climbdown'
It would be good to detect signs of humility and contrition in the healthcare community when the editors of three of the leading trade publications (including this one) launch a “never again” plea for more discussion and less prescriptive dogmatism next time there’s an NHS reorganisation.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: tariff reductions aren't the one-size-fits-all solution
Timely as they are, the Commons health committee’s warnings about the NHS’s approach to saving £20bn are nothing new.
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CommentMedia Watch: it's beginning to look a lot like winter
Freezing temperatures kept most of the press preoccupied this week. By the time you read this, Britain will probably have entered a mini ice age with Siberian blasts immobilising the country - or at least the readers of the Express.
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CommentOpposition likely for Yorkshire reconfiguration plans
Major service change is not getting any easier in North Yorkshire: plans to close inpatient children’s services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton are back on the agenda, a press release reveals.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: just how much will public health have?
So local authorities, it appears, won’t be getting much of a public health fund after all.
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CommentMichael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
Do you remember the Battle of the Bulge? No, nor do I. It was the last German counter-offensive on the western front in World War II, a thrust through the Ardennes at Christmas 1944 that hoped to push British and American armies back into the Channel.