All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 7
-
Comment
Neil Goodwin on Serbian princes and American cousins
'Mixing with Europeans always reminds me how European we are in the UK and how much less we have in common with the USA'
-
Comment
Bed day costs
The Department of Health productivity indicators (click herefor story) detail how much each trust can save by reducing bed stay.
-
Comment
Return to the windmill - behavioural modelling and the future
The lack of a 'big picture' of where reforms will take us means investment and strategic planning are severely hampered. Alasdair Liddell and Laurie McMahon describe a behavioural modelling approach that can help
-
Comment
In a challenging year, our success is yours
Tonight, HSJis hosting its biggest-ever awards ceremony - this year we received more than 900 entries across 18 categories and more than 1,000 people will attend our prize-giving event in central London. In this, the Awards' 25th anniversary year, the success of the event is a ...
-
Comment
Learning disability and language
Letters from Sam Smith, executive director, C-Change for Inclusion, Glasgow; Val Rowlands, superintendent physiotherapist, Stockport Learning Disability Service; and Rod Campbell, director of communication and development, The Regard Partnership, Kingston-upon-Thames
-
Comment
Service link economics
Can Monitor chair Bill Moyes and KPMG consultant Kate Barber explain what is new about the 'The new economics' and justify the statement: 'Treating individual services as profit and loss units promises to transform financial management and clinical engagement' ( HSJ, 16 November 2006)?
-
News
Feedback on efficiency indicators
Nick Edwards is quite right to suggest that efficiency indicators do not tell the story behind the numbers ( Comment, page 3, 26th October) so why did the HSJ compound this by labelling us the worst Acute Trust in England for day surgery rates?
-
News
Peter Mason on social enterprise - the new punk rock?
'Social enterprises have crashed onto the scene with the same energy and style as punk rockers, the new kids on the block full of passion and hope'
-
Comment
Feedback to 'A formula for unfairness'
I read with interest the article in your 16 thNovember edition ' A formula for unfairness'. It confirms the views that many of us have had that there is something wrong with the grant distribution formula used by Government.
-
Comment
Manchester inequalities missing
Letter from David Regan, director, Manchester Joint Health Unit
-
Comment
Your Humble Servant: how do you solve a problem like Patricia...?
To: Don Wise, chief executive
-
Comment
Comment: National directors sign up to reform
No-one ever argues with the case that clinicians at every level are integral to successful service reform. But it is a truth observed more in the intention than the action. It is therefore welcome, although a little late in the day, for the government to wheel out two national clinical ...
-
News
Comment: Why a US management guru has vital questions for the NHS
'Michael Porter's book has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year.'
-
Comment
Nicolaus Henke on Michael Porter's partial answer
The Harvard Business School guru's book Redefining Healthcareis a fascinating but flawed study of reform from which the NHS could learn, says McKinsey's head of global health systems
-
News
Service reconfiguration
While there may well be a case for focusing resources on a smaller number of acute sites, there is a huge issue about accessibility and convenience, which doesn't sit well with the supposedly consumer-friendly modern NHS.
-
Comment
Michael Mandelstam imagines the confessions of a chief executive
'I follow neither rhyme nor reason, only the health secretary. I am a member of an elite, a new breed of NHS chief executive, ruthless and efficient - not like the old softies, few of whom now remain'
-
News
Good and bad targets
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri's carefully worded article emphasised the processes that may be provoked by a target culture. It is surely right that these are the clue to any improvement in performance associated with targeting, other than thrashing the horses. However, the article colludes with the general statement of 'Targets Work', without ...
-
Comment
Hilary Thomas on clinical management
'The gap - often a tribal or cultural one - between doctors and managers seems to be widening again, not helped by the current, and inevitable, obsession with finance.'