All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 15
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HSJ Knowledge
Sounding off
With the incidence of mental illness among deaf people high and specialised services almost non-existent, getting help can be difficult. Emma Dent explores the gaps in care
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HSJ Knowledge
At your service
The government and PCTs are contemplating the benefits of community foundation trusts, but are they really the future for provider services, asks Kaye McIntosh
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News
'I say what I think - it can be uncomfortable'
Emergency access czar Professor Sir George Alberti has spent his career as an outspoken agent of change. Here he reveals how he prefers to eschew politeness and tackle controversy
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Comment
Simon Stevens on powering reforms
Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses
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Comment
PBR versus payment for performance
Mike Farrar ('PbR to become 'payment for performance' in NHS North West', HSJ 1 February) is right - there is no reason why pay for performance (P4P) can't be introduced into the NHS.
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Comment
Noel Pumridge on workforce planning
Or, in simple terms, why should the NHS pay a nurse in Workington almost as much as a nurse in Wimbledon? She'll only fritter it away anyway.
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News
Noel Plumridge on payment by results
I'm sorry, local currency and price is not payment by results in. a meaningful sense
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News
Mike White on politics
'The Lansley policy is that an independent body should allocate resources to each PCT according to need, largely age-related; that health inequality budgets should be paid to directors of public health; and that the shift to a new weighted capitation formula should be done over several years to prevent budget ...
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News
Mike White on politics
'Mr Blair retains a lot more drive and determination than Mr Major had (ever), but his authority is fading'
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Comment
Mike White on politics
'Handy Andy Burnham urges respect for NICE's independent experts and insists that complementary medicines (another regular bugbear) must be a matter for 'local determination'.'
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News
Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'The charges problem boils down to a classic dilemma of democratic politics in a market-orientated society'
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News
Michael White on politics
'All's fair in love and politics and Labour used to say 'Tory cuts' when it really meant smaller increases'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'There's no point replacing meddling by national politicians with meddling by local ones.'
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News
Michael White on politics
In my youth the old Liberal Party could squeeze into Margate or magnificent Scarborough
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News
Michael white on politics
'NHS managers planning new hospitals or services might start thinking greener than they have done up to now'
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News
Michael White on politics
What made me flinch wasn't those weekend reports that UK cancer patients are turning to Canadian online pharmacies for drugs they cannot yet get on the NHS.