All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 16

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The McElephant in the corner, of course, is devolved Scotland, where personal care is free'

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Don?t think, Mr or Ms Finance Director, that you can force Ms Hewitt out by hiring some extra doctors or buying a fleet of scanners'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In Oz there is tension over the public sector losing out in budget tussles with private-sector providers

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It would have taken a chainsaw to separate Ms Hewitt from the job, despite everything'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    My conclusion, Watson, is that it is what street urchins call a cock-up, not a conspiracy

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The end of the road for Blair

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    ' The DoH is officially saying nothing, but my chums tell me they have no qualms about the quality of the iSoft product'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I spoke to Lord Hunt at the weekend, probably for the first time since he returned to government via the Department for Work and Pensions after resigning with quiet dignity over the Iraq war in 2003.

  • Comment

    Michael White on Politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Many Scots assume an SNP-led team would have to modify policies in the face of harsh realities

  • Comment

    Michael White on Politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I think Hewitt will leave the DoH, not something I would have confidently stated a. month ago

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Sunday night is usually quietly un-newsy and health politics is no exception. But not last Sunday night, when it emerged that British Medical Association chair James Johnson had fallen on his scalpel over the medical fiasco.

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'