All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 59
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Media Watch: unhappy GPs
There's no pleasing some people, as a poll of 100 GPs in the Daily Mail showed. Despite huge pay rises (heard about the new GP-class Mercedes Benz?) and shorter hours, they are still unhappy.
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Michael White on healthcare rationing
In the week health ministers launched new initiatives on both cancer and stroke, backbench MP Dr Richard Taylor coincidentally staged a Commons adjournment debate on rationing in the NHS.
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Michael White on Alan Johnson
I don't know where it came from but in the past few days we've started reading in the papers that Gordon Brown may not last the course. What's more, health secretary Alan Johnson may be the man to take over.
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Media Watch: cancer strategy
The furore over party funding squeezed most health coverage out last week, but it made a return to the headlines as the government briefed newspapers on its new cancer strategy.
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Your Humble Servant: a glimpse of the future NHS
The strangest thing happened to me during my recent MRI scan. Some sort of power surge occurred and the magnets went berserk. I don't really understand the physics, but the upshot was that time folded and I slipped through a vortex in time and space to find myself in 2068.
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Simon Stevens on the science of incentives
During the coffee break at a seminar I once attended, I let slip that I thought two of my fellow panellists seemed 'quite switched on'. 'Yes,' a delegate replied, 'they've both got a Nobel Prize'. Umm, amazing powers of insight, Stevens.
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Kate Silvester on repairing processes in the NHS
NHS managers are not taught to understand how the symptoms of the NHS are generated by the invisible processes they and their colleagues in other departments manage. NHS shop floor staff are experts in these processes - but only as far as their own role goes. This process blindness leads ...
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Media Watch: £1.8bn underspend
Much of the heavyweight reporting last week focused on HSJ's exclusive that the NHS is heading for a £1.8bn underspend.
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Emma Dent on Manchester's tale of two cities
There sometimes comes a point in life when you find yourself agreeing with people you never thought you would. I felt this way when I read former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith's report about Manchester.
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Michael White on data security
When I heard that young Tory thruster George Osborne warn that the fiasco over the two missing child benefit discs from HM Revenue and Customs will prove the 'final blow' to the British ID card scheme, I wondered what it might also mean for the NHS.
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Jon Restell on unravelling the pay-off era
The NHS is more anxious to stop problems coming to light than solving them. Good, bad, indifferent - the system does not care about judging your actual performance
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David Amos on HR reform in the health service
HR reform is sweeping public and private employers - 53 per cent of organisations have restructured their HR function in the past year, and 81 per cent have done so in the last five years
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Paul Jennings on personalised services
Developing personalised services for people with learning disabilities has helped to improve access
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Andrew Castle on planning outpatient services
Co-ordinating outpatient clinics in a way that avoids overbooking, delays, over-running, underutilisation and inappropriate attendances requires a clear understanding of the demands on the system, as well as sound planning
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Media Watch: Gordon Brown under fire
Gordon Brown has been coming under fire this week for his behaviour both past and present. The Sun blamed the prime minister for the decision, announced by health secretary Alan Johnson, to scrap six contracts for independent sector treatment centres. The £100m compensation to the dropped companies ‘could have built ...
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Michael White: inside Gordon Brown's mind
Are ministers in Alan Johnson’s health team now finding their feet in their new jobs after a lacklustre start? Are they landing a few blows on the other side too despite renewed talk of a broad consensus on the NHS’s future?
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Sophie Christie on the holy grail of NHS policy
NHS policy seems populated by some remarkably persistent ideas that pop up every decade or so
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Your Humble Servant: world class commissioning
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Helen Bevan on world class commissioning
To make world class commissioning a reality, we must challenge our existing mindsets
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Mark Britnell on world class commissioning
PCTs are not obliged to use this framework - it is simply there to help them if they need it