All Outside the Box articles – Page 2

  • Ali Parsa Circle chief executive
    Comment

    Ali Parsa on hospital process management

    2012-04-26T11:02:00Z

    A major management challenge for hospital operators is the fact that hospitals are hybrid organisations.

  • Devi Shetty
    Comment

    'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'

    2012-04-26T07:00:00Z

    Devi Shetty – nicknamed the Henry Ford of heart surgery – believes developments such as computerised diagnoses and technicians doing the work of highly trained medics are just around the corner. Ben Clover hears his ideas for the future of medicine.

  • Former BBC Trust chair Sir Michael Lyons
    Comment

    From the BBC to the NHS, can public sector reform ever please everyone?

    2012-03-22T08:00:00Z

    Former BBC Trust chair Sir Michael Lyons talks to HSJ.

  • Handshake above money
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    Matt Tee on closing the deal

    2012-03-22T00:00:00Z

    In the middle of October 2010, after negotiations stretching long into the night, and following weeks of speculation about how tough the government was going to be with the BBC, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced it had hammered out a settlement.

  • Ali Parsa Circle chief executive
    Comment

    Ali Parsa on why collectively we are stronger

    2012-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Sir Michael Lyons quite rightly picks up on the changing nature of NHS management. This is as much true of the NHS as it is of the wider public and private sectors.

  • Comment

    Ali Parsa on great mistakes

    2012-02-23T11:46:00Z

    I started my career as an academic. My research objective: to come up with a fluid dynamic formula to predict the complex interaction of waves and currents in turbulent flows.

  • Comment

    John Appleby on risking failure

    2012-02-23T11:04:00Z

    In his book Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford retells a moving and excellent story about Archie Cochrane’s efforts to conduct a clinical trial in a German internment camp.

  • Tim Harford
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    'Failure is necessary to breed success'

    2012-02-23T10:42:00Z

    In his book Adapt, economist and journalist Tim Harford argues that failure is a necessary stage in success, and that experimentation and risk-taking are more effective than an overarching grand plan. Jennifer Taylor explores how these ideas could be translated to the NHS.