All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 54
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Maggie Rae on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Have you started on your plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS? Don't leave it to the great and good to celebrate - you are the great and the good.
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Michael White on NICE decisions
Did you hear Ian Gibson, left wing MP for Norwich North, giving Gordon Brown a piece of his mind in the wake of Labour's disastrous performance in the local elections?
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Media Watch: election time
Most of the weekend was spent dissecting implications of the local elections, which hinted that the next government would be blue.
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Your Humble Servant on getting to grips with nurses
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: Go with the Flo
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Simon Stevens on value for money in the NHS
What is the biggest black box in the NHS? By which I mean, where is the worst ratio of cash to clarity about what taxpayers are getting for their money?
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David Amos on workforce planning
A clip on YouTube called Shifthappens broadcasts statistical evidence to demonstrate that the human race is experiencing a world of exponential growth. NHS workforce planners should take note.
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David Lee on mental health heroes
As every good HSJ reader knows, good management is not about heroics or donning a Superman costume. Good management in mental health is about supporting local innovation and frontline service improvements.
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Michael White on health policy attacks
In the run-up to the local elections, not to mention the Royal College of Nursing's conference, the government took a fearsome bombardment on the health front.
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Jon Restell on information overload
Outsiders in their first few months in the NHS as, say, non-executive directors, are often aghast at the vast amount of information reporting that is required.
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Media Watch: nurses' paperwork
Research suggesting nurses are drowning in paperwork generated a deluge of angry comment. 'The managers who preside over this shambles have blood on their hands,' screamed the News of the World.
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Stephen Ramsden on prioritising patient safety
Can anything be more important than the safety of our patients? This summer the National Patient Safety Campaign will begin. It aims to make safety the NHS's highest priority.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on acute trust challenges
The financial year just gone has not been the easiest for acute services, with tough targets, population changes and possible structural shifts all putting pressure on trusts.
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Michael White on disease politics
I was reading a book about politicians and their illnesses when news broke that John Prescott has suffered from bulimia, what some newspapers were unkind enough to call a girl's illness.
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Your Humble Servant at the FT
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: FT fantastic
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Media Watch: polyclinic row
The polyclinic row stepped up a gear this week as the Tories launched a 'campaign to save the family doctor', warning more than 1,700 GP surgeries could close.
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Helen Bevan on workload liberation
Over the last decade, I have made many attempts (some documented in this column) to improve my personal work systems and processes but struggled to sustain them under the burden of a growing workload.
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Emma Dent looks for a GP again
Well, we have managed yet another move with bodies and minds largely intact, bar the odd bruise or 10.
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Michael White on audit culture
Reading the high-minded Times Literary Supplement on a comfortable sofa the other weekend, I stumbled on a ferocious attack on the audit culture that is now so much a routine feature of national life, NHS included.
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Sophia Christie on tackling the digital divide
Economic growth is increasingly driven by the skill of the local workforce and more specifically confidence and competence in using digital technologies.
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Media Watch: health service jargon
Most would agree health service jargon is a pain but it appears it can also be dangerous.