All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 2
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News
'Blame culture' is driving staff errors underground
Managers must eliminate the blame culture in the NHS to prevent under-reporting of safety breaches, the chief executive of the National Patient Safety Agency has warned.
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on the importance of partnerships
'With the little wisdom, insight and maturity that I hope I have developed with age and experience, I am able to confess that some inter-organisational relationships suffered as I pursued system-wide strategic change'
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Comment
Dr Maire Smith on nurturing innovation
'NHS staff have a wealth of ideas and a number of these could be translated into tangible benefits, not only for the patient, but also for the organisation'
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Comment
Carers must be treated with dignity
Lord Darzi has been asked by the health secretary.to review the main challenges facing the NHS, including ensuring that care for people with long-term conditions is joined-up, patient focused, offers best value and is delivered with dignity in the best location for each patient, which for many will be their ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Safe crackers
Putting patient safety at the heart of NHS services needs a significant cultural shift. HSJ and Microsoft brought together key leaders to ask how to make this happen
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News
Ministers must win battle on provision to fulfil early promise
'While other parts of the public sector have learned to work with a mixed economy, the NHS still flinches at the idea of private involvement'
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Fewer targets means more accountability
'The reduction in targets does not mean data collection will be weakened. For example, health inequalities cannot be monitored without understanding smoking cessation, obesity and infant mortality'
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John Coulthard on patient safety
'Healthcare faces many of the same challenges as commercial businesses; the need for effective information solutions to drive better decision-making has never been more important than it is today'
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Comment
Protecting public and patient involvement
The blind drive to force the introduction of local involvement networks and abolish patient and public involvement forums is dangerous and misguided.
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on trust and safety
'Imagine hearing: 'This is your junior pilot speaking. I have no particular interest in your safety.''
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News
David Lawrence offers some words of advice to Mr Brown
'Yes, Mr Brown, as you well understand, the NHS is a business operation in that it is an input-output system with desired outcomes'
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: London SHA
‘They’ve come up with a whizzo plan to keep Londoners happy. They are going to build lots more hospitals. At the moment they are calling them polyclinics, but that’ll change’
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Comment
It's a question of trust: will the new ministers devolve power?
'Central control is a far more natural response from Brown than trusting local freedom and competition'
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Ringfencing is only a short-term cash fix
'Local flexibility is a principle that needs defending. Ringfencing is only convenient so long as the political wind is blowing in your direction'
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David Peat on letting go
'As soon as the SS Rest and Relaxation draws near another port, you can see groups of slightly anxious-looking passengers veering to the landward side of the vessel and proclaiming: 'Houston, we have a signal!''
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Comment
Richard Morgan and Allison Thorpe on social marketing
'Social marketing recognises that, all things being equal, people will choose behaviours that keep them in good health. But all things are rarely equal; most people have to make choices and compromises'
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News
London review: everyday problems at heart of proposals
'Darzi argues that his approach to this study - listening to Londoners, building a clinical consensus, providing evidence for the recommendations, working with the mayor and London boroughs - provides the foundations for success'