All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 73
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Blogs
Survival of the fittest: will social enterprises thrive in the new world?
How will an NHS opening up to “any qualified provider” fit into the government’s Big Society vision? King’s Fund senior research fellow Rachael Addicott looks at whether social enterprises can make the impression the government hopes for in the healthcare sector.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: the £2bn secret subsidy
Will the £500m ministers plan to spend each year on not sorting out failing hospitals suffice?
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CommentMichael White: the strange landscape of US healthcare
Where else but the US should this column spend a few days as punishment for not understanding how inappropriate a mechanism competition is for driving efficiency and innovation in healthcare?
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CommentMichael White: see you later, innovator
Oh dear. The British Medical Association is promising health ministers a long hot summer over the Health Bill, instead of a few calm weeks for leisurely reflection; this is in the misplaced hope that the medics can force its withdrawal before the bill goes to the obstreperous Lords.
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Changing behaviour needs more than a 'nudge'
Politicians and leadership like “nudge theory” - the idea that a “nudge” in the right direction can inspire behaviour change at a large level. But does it work?
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Pressure? Andrew 'Chopper' Lansley isn't feeling it
Andrew Lansley might have News International to thank for a relatively pressure-free few days - he certainly didn’t appear to be unduly worried during his latest press spot.
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The five laws for delivering integrated care
The listening exercise is over and the results are in; the NHS Future Forum insists integrated care must underpin how health and social care is delivered – and they are right. But do we really understand what this means, and what it implies?
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Is your organisation accepting the unacceptable? Challenging 'ethical fading'
They call it “ethical fading”. You and I call it going along with something you know is wrong.
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CommentMichael White: Lansley - the boy on the burning deck?
Watching Andrew Lansley performing these days sometimes reminds me of Casabianca, Felicia Dorothea Hemans’ famous poem of 1826, the one about the young French sailor (was he 10, 12 or 13?) who stayed at his post on the doomed warship, L’Orient, during Nelson’s 1798 victory at the Battle of the ...
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Blogs
Your flight has been cancelled (by your employer)
When staff shortages mean organisations cancel their employees’ holidays, there are bound to be issues with people management.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the finance director's job interview
“May I recap,” she said. “If I’m appointed finance director of the trust, my main deliverable is a financial strategy for foundation trust status within two years?”
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CommentMichael White: the well-intended Dilnot report may fall on deaf ears
Ministers didn’t sound very grateful for Andrew Dilnot’s report on how to solve England’s elderly care problems and, I suspect, eventually those of the devolved Celtic regions too because they have similar money issues with oldsters who stubbornly won’t die.
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Blogs
The great care divide
Funding for care, particularly older person’s care, is high on the agenda, and new proposals have divided opinion.
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Blogs
Why you should keep the 'smiling assassins' in HR on your side
HR get a lot of criticism from staff and managers alike. But they function in the best interests of the organisation, not individuals or groups of employees, so it may be wiser to keep them onside than wage war.
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CommentMichael White: Cameron takes Labour to task in Wales
Have you noticed in all the excitement over reform of the NHS in England that David Cameron has taken to poking the NHS in Labour-dominated Wales for cuts being factored into the health budget in Cardiff?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: time for primary care to shoulder its share of the savings burden
Around 20 per cent of the entire NHS budget is currently spent on primary care.
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Blogs
Crime doesn't pay... but it might get you free healthcare
It sounds like a joke or a wind-up, but losing private healthcare is no laughing matter.
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CommentMichael White: reform concessions do little to soften Tory image
It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Nick Clegg hired Wembley Stadium to celebrate his party’s triumph in helping rewrite Andrew Lansley’s Health Bill and “saving the NHS.” But Lib Dem boasting caused resentment among Conservative MPs of all stripes.
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CommentMichael White: Southern Cross is a victim of financial engineering
Things may finally be changing but, until the GMB union and Ed Miliband got stuck in this week, I have been repeatedly astonished by the failure to link the care homes crisis to the fate of Andrew Lansley’s bill.
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CommentMichael White: how to survive in the blame game
I heard a senior NHS manager on the radio mid-week sounding like Sharon (“I don’t do blame”) Shoesmith, Haringey’s ousted children’s services chief, as he defended his hospital against a damning report from the Care Quality Commission.