All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 66
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Gail Richards on local area agreements
'If the first phase of LAAs has concentrated on designing and ensuring focused target delivery, albeit in partnership, now we need to ask whether this is sufficient.'
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Frank Burns on collective failure
The national IT programme has failed to achieve and responsibility over the longer run ultimately must lie with the senior management community at every level
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Dave Lee on listening to complaints
The idea of a committee as an inherently good thing may be counter-intuitive. When Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Baroness Julia Neuberger decided in 1993 that the community trust she was chairing should have a customer services committee, there were no bets on its longevity.
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Your Humble Servant: non-executive joy
‘As for selection processes, we still can’t fathom them. It used to be so simple: either failed politicians found a way to boost their pension or successful ones got their wives out of the way a few days a month’.
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Gail Richards on community cohesion
What do you think about when you hear the phrase 'community cohesion'? Is it only important in inner cities? And do we have a role to play?
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Emma Dent on warding off germs
'At the risk of sounding like a 'man flu'-affected member of the opposite sex, I am a bit alarmed that, as I write, it is well over a week since I first woke up feeling ropey and yet I am still coughing and spluttering like a 60 a day-er.'
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Andrew Castle on measuring performance
'If we are interested in productivity, quality of output and whether services are being delivered on time and at the right cost, theatre use is not the right measure.'
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Andrew Jones on financial influence
'Providers under fire are likely to react to fill up their capacity and treat more invasively. This will mean more operations and more investigations.'
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Deborah O'Dea on good employers
I recently had lunch with a friend employed at a strategic health authority. Asked by an outplacement consultant what sort of job she wanted, she replied: 'Well I'd really like to keep the one I've got. Yes, that's exactly the job I'd like.'
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Emma Dent on slim pickings
Overhearing 17-year-olds fixating on how much weight you can gain and still look 'normal' has made me distinctly uncomfortable of late
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Emma Dent on summer
I can only bring myself to write about the heat now because it has cooled right down. This time last week I was out and about for most of the day.
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Helen Bevan on US public health
We can learn a lot from other healthcare systems. Sometimes we find we have more in common than in variance - even with situations that appear to be the polar opposite of the NHS.
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Nick Summerton on clinical management
Two years ago, when he was still BMJ editor, Richard Smith asked: 'What is it that doctors offer that other professionals cannot?' 'Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis, ' responded chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson.
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Succession in medical management
Succession in medical management is a problem for trusts. Many require a full-time medical director, but few consultants wish to give up clinical practice to take this on.