All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 6
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Dianne Leyland on the lack of clarity over local involvement networks
Voluntary and community groups must be actively involved if LINks are to work. Yet the sectors' goodwill, undermined by the botched creation of patient forums, is eroding further.
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Andrew Jones on conspiracy or cock-up
'It could be kindly argued that, by general lack of enthusiasm, a third of the country is yet to churn out any meaningful health activity data, yet alone customise or dynamise it to specific local goals. Perhaps more telling is that two-thirds have yet to even put together a simple ...
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Back to the wards
A selection of reader responses about our story on senior nurses going 'back to the wards' to save trusts money
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Funding formula
I am delighted that you reported calls to scrap the NHS funding formula on the evidence given to the health select committee by Professors Asthana, Stone and McCormick.
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Listening to complaints
David Lee's article on listening to complaints was engaging. What would have been really useful is a sense of what has actually changed in the day-to-day operation of services and the impact on patient care, efficiency and staff relations.
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Public health
Professor David Hunter's piece was an excellent, balanced article with a clear conclusion. I couldn't agree more on the need for a moratorium on organisational reform and its negative impact on public health, particularly public mental health.
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Coping with redundancy
Adding to what Ken Jarrold has said, I've been through redundancy a couple of times and these are some of the lessons I've learned:
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Data protection
'The DoH said... that data processing agreements were being put in place to comply with the Data Protection Act'. (Click herefor story.) Agreements with whom?
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Communicating with patients
I've always enjoyed Hilary Thomas's articles and admire her courage at writing about her breast cancer, but I was quite saddened to read what she said about not realising what her patients had to go through until she had experienced it herself. ...
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Service link economics
Letter from Angie Jezard, senior consultant, AJ Financial and Strategic Healthcare
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A welcome bid to put PECs at the heart of decision-making
If a commissioning revolution is vital to making a success of the new NHS landscape, we must know who will be making the decisions. In too many cases members of primary care trusts' professional executive committees have found themselves - or placed themselves - well away from the issue.
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Six of the best on health inequalities
Despite its presence on the so-called Selbie Six list of NHS priorities for 2006-07, tackling health inequalities is proving a significant challenge for many primary care trusts.
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Funding formula and fairness
I read with interest the article by Sheena Asthana and Alex Gibson (HSJ 16 November 2006). The article sets out some interesting data which we would be unwise to ignore in terms of what it means for the NHS. However, I do believe that the conclusions drawn from the data ...
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Mike Cooke on mental health
We have made measurable progress in mental health services over the past six years but there is still too much variation in services and in investment, primarily in services not covered by a national service framework.
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Janet Askham on the need to improve patient feedback
'If we continue to ask patients to give up their time to provide valuable feedback on their doctor's performance, surely we owe it to them at least to ask the right questions?'
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IT project accused of bullying
I wish to respond to the article IT project accused of bullying.
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Predicting the future
We were interested to read the article on telephone based health coaching for patients with long term conditions (Predicting the Future), though it was not clear how many patients were actually receiving such care.
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Feedback to 'A Formula for Unfairness'
This is a response to 'A formula for Unfairness' article.
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Power to close NHS organisations gives super-regulator super-teeth
A long delay can create its own sense of drama - such is the case with the regulatory review which has been promised for the best part of a year and gone through various drafts (including a complete overhaul by McKinsey). In the event, the result published this week makes ...
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Foundations could provide multi-community services
Community foundation trusts could combine the provider arms of more than one primary care trust to avoid them being unviable as stand-alone organisations.