All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 16
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Your Humble Servant: grand theft NHS
Dear Don‘Bullies who threaten NHS staff will be shown the red card’ press release from the DoH finally confirms what we have suspected since February.
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Simon Stevens on happiness and health
'Six factors apparently explain 80 per cent of the variation in happiness... Not all of these can be tackled by a typical primary care trust.'
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Who can make the health service listen?
With the rejection of local restructuring proposals raising eyebrows, will the independent reconfiguration panel and overview and scrutiny committees fill the democratic deficit?
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Healthcheck ratings: tougher test means story must be retold
The Healthcare Commission said it would be a tougher test - and so it has proved. In the first national healthcheck ratings only two dozen organisations were rated excellent for service quality, and even fewer for their use of resources. Only half of NHS organisations met all the core standards, ...
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Simon Stevens on winning hearts and minds
'NHS targets have not yet been tough enough (yes you read that right) to alter public perception'
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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Lessons from history
'I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising'
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on a year of imagination
'I'd like us to look back on a time when people came to a big shed and had 10 minutes with the expert'
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Responses to independence roundtable
It appears that participants in the roundtable discussion on independence of the NHS pulled their punches. Let me not pull mine.
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NHS managers have a key role in local politics
'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'
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Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape
'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'
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'Turnaround teams' - a sticking plaster for a severed limb?
The ability to commission effective and efficient services is completely divorced from strategies to implement and provide cost-effective services, argue Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson
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Mike White on the Lords
'You cannot expect a nurse to handle 50 staff and a £1.5m budget without training'
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets
Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.
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Media watch
The irony is that 'taking politics out of the NHS' is sure to be mired in political speculation
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Media watch
Even if they do not come up with any new policy, they've got an awful lot of ammunition with which to bombard the government