All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 19

  • 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'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • 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

    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Blair retains a lot more drive and determination than Mr Major had (ever), but his authority is fading'

  • Comment

    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    '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'.'

  • News

    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    '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 ...

  • News

    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'

  • Comment

    Noel Pumridge on workforce planning

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Noel Plumridge on payment by results

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I'm sorry, local currency and price is not payment by results in. a meaningful sense