All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 72
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CommentMichael White: lacklustre Labour missing opportunity in Liverpool
Sometimes politicians clash with experts on real-life issues in ways that expose the weaknesses of both groups, especially the political class.
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Blogs
Say no to 'yes' men and women
As the Liberal Democrat conference draws to a close, opposition ministers have again targeted Nick Clegg for reneging on party policies and ‘selling out’ in forming the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Can he ever be more than a “yes man”?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: as if by magic... How the government conjured up a saving
The great news revealed in the recent NHS 2010-11 accounts is that commissioners spent significantly less on administration that year than was previously assumed.
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CommentMichael White: don't get mad, get on with it
By the time I reached Birmingham for the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference, the threatened drama about the fate of Andrew Lansley’s much-amended Health and Social Care Bill was all over bar the inevitable shouting.
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CommentMaking clinicians effective leaders: guidance from success in the US
Physician leadership has a long history in the US, and its success could have implications for the NHS to learn from when putting power into the hands of clinicians.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: will the government help write trusts' shopping lists?
Two recent public accounts committee reports suggest the NHS may still have a thing or two to learn about shopping.
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CommentMichael White: in reality, even a centralised model devolves power
Much fuss was made of Nadine Dorries’ bid to tighten abortion counselling procedures as the Health and Social Care Bill finally left the Commons.
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Blogs
Leaders lack confidence in the changes they've been asked to make
Transforming the public sector on the scale the government requires was always going to be difficult. The success looks more difficult still as the majority of leaders in the public sector have no confidence in the changes they’ve been asked to make.
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How long does it take to do 100 minutes' work?
There are 13,259 over-one-year waiters on the English waiting list. That’s only 100 minutes’ work for the NHS. Why not put an end to excessive waiting times once and for all?
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CommentMichael White: what's wrong with giving overseas providers a crack at managing NHS hospitals?
I was still on my late summer holiday during much of the renewed skirmishing which heralded the return of Parliament and the latest battles over the Health Bill.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: the real problems affecting readmissions
How do we keep people out of hospitals – those giant, multimillion-pound “monuments to the failure of preventive medicine”, as one director of public health recently put it?
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Blogs
Apple of the eye? Why leaders should never be seen as indispensible
The announcement last month that Steve Jobs was stepping down as chief executive of Apple prompted discussion about whether it is good for a company to be so identified with one individual.
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Blogs
Creating diversion will improve mental health screening throughout the judicial system
New evidence has shown that rates of mental ill health among offenders connected with probation services are worryingly high. An investment into diversion services can help provide these individuals with vital support services at the earliest opportunity, says Sean Duggan.
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CommentMichael White: through choice comes different outcomes - and that way we learn
Politicians had barely shaken the sand from their shoes or packed away the bucket and spade before they were gripped by that hardy health perennial, proposed changes to Britain’s abortion law.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: inflation is set to inflame the pension problem
The most important economic indicator this autumn is an old friend, reappearing like a toothache you’d forgotten about. It’s inflation.
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Blogs
How good journalism can improve NHS waiting times
There is plenty to hold the NHS and the government to account for, once we stop focusing on the wrong waiting times figures.
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Blogs
If bullying doesn't bother staff, why are so many absent?
Two articles published on HSJ.co.uk: one on bullying, the other on absenteeism. Surely I can’t be the only one putting two and two together…
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Blogs
Trying to force equality in leadership is an unbalanced approach
The NHS breakthrough programme of putting a small number - around 60 - of black and minority ethnic managers through a leadership programme and hoping this will result in more BME senior managers isn’t working. It was a little naive to think it would.