All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 51
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Helen Bevan on paths to improvement
The title of Lord Darzi's report - High Quality Care for All - proclaims the significant and welcome focus on quality improvement in the next phase of NHS reform.
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Noel Plumridge on problems with PFI accounting rules
Rules, they say, are made to be broken. There was never anything sacrosanct about Gordon Brown's fiscal rule, which has restricted public sector debt to less than 40 per cent of national income.
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Michael White on facing up to obesity
Amid the hype over Labour's defeat in Glasgow East, I suspect the most important consequence of the by-election will not be the ejection of Gordon Brown.
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Your Humble Servant on testing GPs
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Top of the docs
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Media Watch: taking on obesity
As health secretary Alan Johnson packed up for the summer, he left a stern warning about the dangers of overindulgence.
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Maggie Rae on lunchtime networking
Did you know four out of five of us do not get properly away from our desks during our working day? Shocking isn't it?
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Emma Dent on the smoking ban
One year on from the introduction of the English smoking ban, it is striking how much difference it has made to the nation's social habits.
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Media Watch: bonus scheme for surgeons
'It's a stitch-up,' shouted the Daily Star, one of many to report on plans for a pilot bonus scheme for surgeons at Imperial College London Healthcare trust.
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Michael White on palliative care
Eleven years ago a good friend died of lung cancer in the palliative ward of a London hospital. Since the operation(s) had gone wrong and he was only 62, it wasn't ideal.
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Sophia Christie on public health leadership
For much of the last 20 years, public health has faced a huge challenge of marginalisation. A state active model of health was always going to struggle under a government that denied the concept of society.
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David Lee on board to board meetings
Now that we have over 100 foundation trusts, it is appropriate to set a moment aside for the less fortunate among us: those who have yet to experience the thrills of the 'board to board' meeting with Monitor.
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Paul Jennings on social marketing
Walsall Teaching primary care trust was one of the first organisations to deploy health trainers to give one-to-one support to people with health problems.
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Michael White on rating doctors
As the government winds down towards what it hopes will be a welcome summer break (don’t bank on it), it’s been home secretary Jacqui Smith’s week.
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Media Watch: GP ratings
There's a new hot topic for the hospital water cooler - a website that allows patients to rate doctors just like a book they've ordered from Amazon.
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Your Humble Servant takes a look at Tory targets
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Outcomes, schmoutcomes
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HSJ Knowledge
Jon Restell on praise for the NHS
I am writing this column soft-eyed at the close of the busy next stage review/NHS 60th anniversary week, with Nye Bevan staring exhortation at me from my desk calendar.
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Stephen Ramsden on cultural revolutions
There is often talk about changing the culture of NHS organisations. But no matter how well leaders articulate their big plans, if we do not focus on the microsystems in our organisations we are unlikely to see real behaviour change.
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HSJ Knowledge
Emma Dent on celebrating the 60th
At an NHS Confederation conference do a fellow guest commented that I can be a bit grumpy in this column.
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Media Watch: looking back on 60 years
On the NHS's 60th anniversary, several papers concluded the government is not doing a bad job of running the service.
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Michael White on how Darzi looks from abroad
An impeccable sense of timing and a wedding of young friends in Washington DC ensured I stepped off the plane at Heathrow this week uninformed about Lord Darzi's master plan for the NHS.