All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 52
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Simon Stevens on a good year for Darzi
As wine experts will occasionally admit, it's hard to know how a new vintage will perform. Wines age, maturation takes time. And a decent bottle may be overshadowed by a later blockbuster year.
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Your Humble Servant in 1948
Dear Lord Donald of WiseIt is my humble duty and sincere pleasure to present to you this first report of the General Hospital board of management for the National Health Service.
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Nigel Edwards on Darzi's big ideas
The 'once in a generation' billing given to health minister Lord Darzi's review, published this week, might have caused some alarm after so much change in the last few years.
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Media Watch: response to Darzi
If Lord Darzi reads his press he will be basking and bawling in equal measure.
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Michael White on Darzi politics
Even before the saintly Lord Darzi uttered the first sentence of his latest report, or Henley had even voted, the Cameroon Conservatives had got their NHS retaliation in first.
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Helen Bevan on the NHS as a global leader
I have just returned from Saskatchewan, Canada. I was invited to the province as a 'critical friend' of its healthcare transformation strategy.
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HSJ Knowledge
Media Watch: the service's 60th anniversary
Coverage of the health service's pending diamond jubilee spans the good and bad.
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Emma Dent on Confed dilemmas
Good Lord readers, it's that time again. How quickly it comes round. Of what am I talking? The NHS Confederation annual conference, of course.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Michael White on public health
The other weekend I found myself discussing the public sector with an old leftie who had worked most of his life in housing and hated what he feels the Blair-Brown governments have done. In a word, marketisation.
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Maggie Rae on world class shopping
'Tired of shopping yet?' shouted a colleague. A gentle reference to my earnest attempts to improve our delivery of the world class commissioning standards.
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Noel Plumridge on community tariff appeal
'The biggest black box in the NHS' was how my fellow columnist Simon Stevens last month described the £10bn or more spent by English PCTs on district nursing, therapies and other mainstream community healthcare.
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Your Humble Servant on saying no
Your humble servantTo: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Saying no
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Media Watch: hygiene targets
News from the Healthcare Commission that one in four hospitals is not hitting hygiene targets was about as welcome as a dose of MRSA.
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Michael White on specialist trauma response
The other day health minister Ben Bradshaw read out to concerned MPs a list of all the places on the body where young people get pierced these days.
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David Lee on handling a killing
One piece of news mental health trust directors dread above almost any other is that of a homicide by a local service user.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Diamond 60
On 3 July, as part of our celebration of the 60th anniversary of the NHS, HSJ will publish its list of the most influential people from the last six decades. We asked you to suggest who should be on it, and over the next few weeks we reveal some of ...
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Simon Stevens on on China's plans for healthcare
In Beijing a few weeks ago, discussing alternative health reform models with Chinese government officials, I was struck by the fact that at about the time the NHS Plan was being formulated in 2000, China was embarking on a similar 10-year health plan.
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Michael White on dealing with the Treasury
Right, enough of this gloom. All together now, we are going to say 'let's stay cheerful for the rest of this column, whatever happens'.
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News
Emma Dent on Scottish drinking habits
I read the following recent story with interest: 'Recalculated figures from the 2003 Scottish Health Survey show 40 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women are binge drinking at least double the recommended daily intake on their heaviest drinking day.'