All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 3
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Comment
Cameron speech: Tories elbow their way to the front on independence agenda
'Strategic health authorities will be less happy with the inference that they will become a local arm of the Department of Health, much reduced in power.'
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Comment
Robert Greene and Paul Ray on foundation finances
Patient choice presents particular challenges for foundation trusts, so good revenue forecasting is needed, say Robert Greene and Paul Ray
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HSJ Knowledge
No need for foundations to get in a stew if the mix is right
The new governance code provides the five key ingredients with which foundation trusts can help boards develop effective leadership and cultivate roots in the community. Monitor chair Bill Moyes explains
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Tim Gilling on why scrutiny committees will become more important
'We should be encouraged by evidence that shows a collaborative, improvement-driven approach'
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Outspoken Wanless returns to judge a dream deferred
It comes as no surprise that Sir Derek Wanless believes that the promise laid out in his seminal 2002 report is becoming a dream deferred.
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Emma Dent on the unhealthy English
'I knew that sales of Superkings are kept afloat by our friends in the North, but was hoping that, these days, the death rate would not differ so much from north to south.'
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News
Nicholson: mixed reviews but the right idea
Six weeks into the job, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has had a few days in which he will have felt the full force of the pressure he must withstand in his role at the centre of the increasingly heated debate about the future of the NHS.
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Comment
The history of hospital administrators
What is the earliest reference to hospital administrators?In his book The Crusades through Arab Eyes(2006, Saqi Books) Amin Maalouf refers to the severe wounding of Buri, the leader of Damascus and son of Tughtigin, in 1131.
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Appointments Commission
I was interested to see (page 8, 14 September 2006) that the Appointments Commission was insisting that previous experience as a chair was not excluded from candidate assessment even though HSJ had seen letters from that same commission which confirmed that such experience was indeed not to be taken into ...
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Neil Goodwin...with the Beckhams in Venice
'Nothing would be worse for Beckham, Venice and the NHS to hear people say that they were once great but that was a long time ago'. Our new online-only columnist brings us the first of his regular diary piece charting life after NHS management
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Efficiency indicators do not tell the story behind the numbers
The comprehensive spending review is no longer the distant event it once seemed - the coming financial squeeze makes a numbers game out of the next 18 months or so.
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Your Humble Servant: regime change
‘We need to start stockpiling resources for a long fight now. We have started buying up poster sites and newspaper advertising space to deny it to the opposition.’
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Electronic staff record
I was interested to read the letter from Ken Hutchinson, managing director of HR Strategic Solutions, which characterised the electronic staff record as a failed Department of Health initiative (Feedback, page 19, 28 September).
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Comment
Sue Slipman on foundation trusts and the healthcheck ratings
'Having strengthened their financial management without comprising service quality, foundation trusts are now in a position to step up their investment in providing first class patient care'
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News
NPSA and menus
Your article 'NPSA attacks meaningless glossy menus' (news, 12 October, page 16) misrepresents my comments at the patient safety fringe event during the Conservative Party conference.
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Comment
NICE and value for money
I am currently denied a particular course of medication, in the sense that NICE has determined that the NHS would not receive value for the £2,000 per month that it would cost.
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An online service tailored to your needs
This week, HSJgets personal. Today we have launched a new online service free to registered users of the website, designed to bring you the most relevant content direct to your desktop.
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News
Occupational therapy
I read with great delight the article by David Woodheadreferring to the virtues of working on an allotment and how beneficial it is.
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Comment
Pace of reform
Keith Palmer argues persuasively that there is a need to maintain the momentum of reform (Opinion, page 22, 12 October) but his analysis illustrates a fundamental difficulty. He focuses largely on secondary care and the only reference to general practices is about their referrals to other services, although he does ...
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Trust websites
I don't know which is more alarming about your Working Lives article ('In on the act', page 26, 28 September), the idea that some unfortunate employee of the Healthcare Commission spent 285 hours studying NHS websites, or the reported remark that scanning a website for 30 minutes is only a ...