All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 5
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John Murray on a joined-up service
'Devolution in the NHS means local priorities increasingly drive allocation of resources. While this development has many benefits, it can unfairly disadvantage patients with specialised conditions, who will inevitability be smaller in number and therefore have less of a voice locally'.
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The role of individual responsibility
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has stressed.that joint working should be the first, not the last, option considered by local authorities and primary care trusts.
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David Peat on fitness for purpose
'Fitness for purpose has given us intelligence, new understandings and insights into the changing role of being a fully fledged commissioner in the new NHS. It has.helped us respond to the new realities and changes that have taken place in our relationships in and outside the NHS'
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Your Humble Servant: future imperfect
‘MRSA is discovered to have hidden properties which eliminate the H5N1 avian flu virus and patients now choose hospitals with high bacteraemia rates’
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Leak reveals plan for Ofcare regime of fines and closures
Underperforming trusts will face fines and closure under powers given to new health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, HSJ has learned.
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Ofcare: 'Ambitions and metrics' mark launch of a new regulatory era
'Ofcare's performance framework commences with mea culpa, admitting what healthcare professionals have been telling the Department of Health for years - top-down targets undermine innovation, motivation and accountability to communities'
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Neil Goodwin on public service reform
'If there is one lesson to be learnt.from the past 10 years, it is to pay much more attention to implementing change. Far better to implement half-a-dozen change strategies effectively than to fire off a dozen in a scattergun way, hoping some will hit the mark'
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary
When HSJ senior features writer Emma Dent was asked to join an Oxfam and Unison delegation to poverty-stricken Malawi, she got a lot more than she bargained. Read her day-by-day account of the trip here.
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David Lock on continuing care liability
'The dividing line between healthcare and social care has been the subject of numerous legal cases, endless guidance, appeals to and reports by the parliamentary ombudsman and more than a few scratched managers' heads over the years'
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 6
Before the flight Karen and I have time to go for a walk into Lilongwe, round the central market (just as busy, noisy and chaotic as London's Petticoat Lane market and selling the same hotch potch of goods) and do some shopping. I buy wooden bowls, pottery made in Dedza, ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 5
This morning we head in different directions; we say goodbye to Claire as she heads home and Alex and Abbey go back to Bwaila to sweet talk its management into letting them take photos there, Karen and I to meet the Water Employees Trade Union.
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 4
I am woken at dawn by the muezzin from the Lilongwe mosque and prevented from getting back to sleep by the cleaners, whose stockroom is on the same floor, not long after starting work with a great deal of bucket clattering..
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 3
At breakfast in the hotel we are joined by Alex, a freelance journalist who used to work as a media officer for Oxfam after being a journalist and returned to the third estate a few years ago. (He was once a war correspondent after starting out as an arts writer ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 2
An early start today. Contrary to my preconceptions about laid back African living, Malawi seems to be an early to bed early to rise kind of place; perhaps not surprisingly when it goes dark (and by dark I mean pitch black as there are no street lights; even city dwellers ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 1
International overnight flights should have been banned under the Geneva Convention. The 15-hour journey from Heathrow to Kamuzu airport, with a dash across Johannesburg airport to catch a connecting flight, was my first flight either outside Europe or lasting more than four hours. Although the tiny time difference means that ...
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Partnership working needs financial conviction
'Anxious to move on from rows over cost-shunting, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has pledged to champion partnership working, pooled budgets and joint commissioning'
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Deficit crisis: ground won for training must be held in face of cash battles
'The government's service-level agreement - a response to criticism of the 10 per cent cut in training by SHAs last year - looks to be a dead letter within days of being published'
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Mike Cooke on succession planning
'I came back with gusto, lungs full, laptop (and pencil) poised and with best away-visit intentions started with my job. I am delighted to say we did fill my job with a great internal candidate'
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Deborah O'Dea on coping with change
'Change is no less difficult when our intentions are absolutely right and serving patients' best interests.'.