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Blair interview: 'A pound wasted is one not spent on NHS values'
System reform and good management are the only ways to deliver the NHS's values in the modern world, the prime minister tells Nick Edwards in an exclusive interview
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Comment: muddle on primary care pilot delays
'There seems to be a distinct waning of enthusiasm on both sides, with private providers complaining about inflexibility and complexity and primary care trusts feeling financial pressures.'
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'Yes, I am a service user as well as a chief executive. I am in recovery. I have experienced depression, and view this as a strength.'
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Your Humble Servant: public health and wine receptions
‘A fight has broken out between a couple of balding, geeky, thin male strategy directors who are trying to stab each other with Montblanc pens’
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Comment: PCT recruitment cannot afford to pay tribute to the old regime
'To what extent is the success of current primary care trust chief executives in winning the top jobs in the new organisations a verdict on the success of the whole sector?'
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Comment: managing demand without the command
'It is not disagreeing but dissembling that really annoys doctors.'
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Comment: Hopes for surplus pinned on turnaround in forecasting
It would be a bold stroke to pull off - delivering even a small surplus at the end of this financial year given the situation that NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers inherited in March.
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Kieran Walshe on professional regulation
'It will be much easier for NHS organisations to deal effectively and constructively with clinical performance problems'
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Your Humble Servant: Project Stepford
‘You are either in a lot of trouble or are just the sort of twisted mind we need’
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Comment: Anger as fitness for purpose programme fails on fairness
'Rather than PCTs being helped to consider and work on weaknesses in a supported way, they are in effect invited to merely record what they already know.'
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Comment: Responsibility and beliefs key to next stage of choice
'The government believes the 'where' of care resonates with the public at least as much as the 'how?'.'
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Hilary Thomas on clinical management
'My unwanted effects present a long, weary list of moans. These demonstrate just how much my uncomplaining patients have been through'
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Emma Dent on teenage kicks
'Our sex education was adequate although we did not get onto the juicy stuff until, frankly, it was too late for some. I thank the pages of teen mag Just Seventeenfor my best information.'
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Comment: PCTs need certainty of consultations to innovate
'You cannot be certain of a consultation's outcome, however important to you, but that makes it all the more vital you are certain of the process.'
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Comment: Trusts feel squeeze from PCTs' tight grip
'Foundations should not be surprised if PCTs prove fierce negotiators this year. However, their complaint is about a lack of planning.'
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'Cross-cutting government initiatives on respect, anti-social behaviour, mental health and social inclusion and incapacity benefit are all beginning to emerge.'
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Your Humble Servant: Cyborgs on order
'This was the latest shipment of cyborgs destined for NHS Direct, which included a model that could put over a thousand calls on hold per minute.'
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Andrew Jones on clinical management
A lack of understanding on either side only contributes to ludicrous meetings where the only obvious collective truth is self-preservation.
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Emma Dent on days off
'It's as if working in education, health or social care should be some kind of prolonged, low-level punishment rather than a fulfilling, rewarding experience.'
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Comment: Confidence in achievement shines through from HSJ awards
'There is sometimes concern that being seen to celebrate success is akin to bad taste when there are so many pressures in the system and on individuals'