All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 21
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News
Leaked DoH report
Predicting workforce requirements accurately always presents huge challenges but it appears the AHP/scientist estimates are crude in the extreme
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Comment
Pay and workforce strategy 2008-11
There is currently great confusion among hospital doctors as to how best to respond to the many changes in employment conditions that are affecting our working conditions
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Superbug memo: scale of problem in no doubt as MRSA paper admits failure
The memo considers - and rightly rejects - the case for primary care trusts to fine acute trusts for MRSA rates
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Pay and workforce: GP contract delay is the first staff salvo
The government will still be desperate not to see another staff group set itself against reform, particularly given the crucial role primary care will play
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Mental health and ministerial promises
Why should the Government be believed when it hints at non-statutory answers to some of the issues around reform of mental health law (Michael White column, 4 January, page 10). The evidence tells us that we should be very wary of trusting them.
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Pay and workforce reforms
I read with great interest your coverage of the leaked DH report on the pay and workforce strategy for 2007.
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Comment
Support is vital to change
It is at the front line where the drive for financial recovery overwhelms any opportunity to invest in the means to change the dynamics
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Key themes for change
The NHS has lost a great deal of talent in recent years. As a result it's lost much of its corporate memory
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Dr Pat Troop on managing the Polonium-210 outbreak
Staff have learned what it is like to work intensively at that speed under public and political scrutiny, and it has been useful training for future events, such as pandemic flu
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A prescription for professionalism
What ideas like NHS independence lack is not the eye-catching headline or even the fine detail but the implementation and local connection
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Rotherham chief executive Brian James on why Gerry Robinson can't fix the NHS
'Disappointingly, Sir Gerry never seized the opportunity to explore and challenge consultants as to how they could be more efficient and productive, which is ultimately the key to eradicating waiting times. The opportunity was sacrificed for a much simpler story of consultants versus managers, with both sides presented as stereotypes.'
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Comment
More readers responses to Gerry Robinson TV programme.
I appreciate the disappointment Brian felt about the programme and the programme makers. However, I would argue that there are some critical defects with the approach that says much about the 'Gerry Robinson' style.
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Readers responses to Gerry Robinson TV programme
We would like to address the recent programme 'Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS?' and the comments made in return by Brian James, Chief Executive of Rotherham Foundation Trust.
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News
Thinking long term on treatments
News that government action to tackle the effects of heart disease in the UK population through better care and statin drugs has to be welcomed. Yet it also leads to questions about why this strategy could not be adopted for other conditions which blight lives and cost the NHS (and ...
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News
Thinking long term on treatments
News that government action to tackle the effects of heart disease in the UK population through better care and statin drugs has to be welcomed. Yet it also leads to questions about.why this strategy could not be adopted for other conditions which blight lives and cost the NHS (and the ...
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Comment
Letters about cleaning contracts
The comments by Andy Burnham ( read the story here) are not surprising as he has made them on a number of other occasions, but it is disappointing to see a government minister publicly taking such a short-sighted view.
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News
Letters about NEDs
I write as an non-executive director from a disbanded primary care trust. Seen from here, the appointment process to the new PCTs was a farce.
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A new realism needed on CJD
Surely the time has come to end the monthly issue of CJD statistics. Last year's returns showed there were only five deaths from vCJD (7.5 per cent of total) compared with 62 deaths from non-vCJD. Peak mortality from vCJD was reached in 2000 when 28 deaths (34 per cent of ...
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Comment
Independent sector falls down on data
A level playing field is the holy grail of trust managers who see themselves as competing with the private sector for clinical work. Key to that is confidence that patients and their GPs will be able to make informed choices about where they should go for treatment.