All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 24
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PCT network to 'manage creative tensions'
Tensions between acute and primary care trusts could be soothed by the new NHS Confederation PCT network, its chair has said.
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Monitor criticised for data demand
The foundation trust regulator Monitor must not seek to 'enhance' its regulatory role, Foundation Trust Network director Sue Slipman has warned.
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Top thinkers hail power of imagination
If clinicians are the likely generators of the ideas that will transform NHS performance, managers need the confidence to create the space for them to blossom. Our main feature this week looks at a group of very different ideas with the potential to make a huge difference locally and nationally.
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Trusts may lose secure hospitals
Control of England's three high-security hospitals could be removed from local NHS control, HSJ has learned.
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Water fluoridation
I was interested to read that Jessica Crowe uses water fluoridation as an example of a public health intervention that might provoke local protests, and that therefore overview and scrutiny committees (OSCs) might assist.
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Disaffection rules as chiefs mourn Alan Milburn's vision
Alan Milburn is the most popular New Labour health secretary, according to HSJ's survey of trust chief executives - not surprising when the same survey reveals the light that still burns brightly in people's hearts for the NHS plan.
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Chiefs reveal frustrations over doctors' contracts in HSJ survey
Most chief executives would cap GPs' pay, abolish clinical excellence awards for consultants and write off historic debts if they had the power.
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Unity will unlock gateway to success
Sir Ian Carruthers' two-month review of England's reconfiguration proposals urges much greater co-ordination of effort - a more united front to replace a series of skirmishes.
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Falls in patients being added to waiting lists
John Appleby (Data briefing, HSJ, 22 February) highlighted the 'strange' improvements there have been in reducing the number of people on NHS waiting lists between 1997 and 2006.
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Political bias on Dispatches
I am writing to complain about the recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme on the NHS, which was politically biased...
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BUPA and choice
I would like to make it plain that BUPA Hospital Leeds does not charge a 'premium to tariff' when treating NHS patients under choose and book. It is understandable that the complex system you outlined (HSJ, 22 February) could leave readers thinking otherwise.
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The 'misery' of eliminating waste
I thought Noel Plumridge's description of the 'miserable territory of hunting down and eliminating waste' a little trite (HSJ, 22 February)..
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Gay-friendly employers
Stonewall is right in asserting the NHS has 'a long history of employing gays and lesbians' but unlike other minority groups, most remain invisible to their employers.
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Organisational energy
I agree totally with Helen Bevan's article on organisational energy but can't help thinking about the amount of energy being wasted in primary care trusts across the country as they grapple with the Commissioning a Patient-Led NHS.reconfiguration.
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Occupational therapists in the picture
I write with reference to the photograph on page 9 of HSJ on 15 February, 'Airedale gets rehabilitation down to a tea'.
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Payment by results and productivity
Noel Plumridge is perplexed by the dilemma of paying for payment by results-induced productivity within a closed, cash-limited system (HSJ, 22 February). I.thought the answer to that was price. As the volumes go up so unit prices go down.
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Payment by results and South Yorkshire
Noel Plumridge states (HSJ, 22 February) that there was 'never really payment by results; it was always payment for activity' and highlighted the need for incentives for clinicians.
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Look to the long term for 2020 vision on climate change
With front-page headlines this week warning that the UK's policies on climate change are set to achieve their 2020 milestone 30 years too late, the scale of the environmental challenge ahead becomes yet more daunting.
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Restoring confidence requires an end to financial fudges
.'With the NHS moving .towards a more transparent. market, top-down decisions. on the distribution of funds. must not become the norm.'.
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Neil Goodwin on apologising
The two most important words in organisational life may be 'I apologise', but saying sorry can be counterproductive unless the sentiment is backed with service delivery changes