All articles by Paul Corrigan – Page 2
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CommentPaul Corrigan: commissioning competencies
Most, if not all, primary care trusts will improve their commissioning competencies over the next few months. This will be an important step towards gearing up commissioning to play its full role.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on clinical leadership
Over the last couple of years we have all become used to the importance of clinical leadership for the development of the NHS. In fact in the management of a health service it’s really quite difficult to conceive of an argument against it.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: why Andy Burnham is wrong to rip up the NHS competition rulebook
Health secretary Andy Burnham’s rewriting of NHS competition rules undermines local decision making, conflicts with Labour’s manifesto and could breach competition law, argues Paul Corrigan. He claims commissioners should ignore it
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CommentPaul Corrigan: world class commissioning
The Department of Health launched the second year of the world class commissioning process in mid September.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS reform
NHS reform requires the creation of significant parts of the NHS system that are independent of the Department of Health and the NHS mainstream hierarchy of the past.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS values and reality
NHS values concerning equal access for all, free at the point of need, are the core of its culture.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: the future of foundation trusts
The biggest clash between NHS culture and strategy continues to be found around foundation trusts.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on holding out for a heroic NHS leader
NHS culture isn’t just self protective. Like most cultures its internal obsession and expectations can harm the people inside it as much as it rejects those outside.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: Darwin's theory on the NHS
The greatest truth in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is that to survive in a rapidly changing environment, species must adapt. And for a species to be adaptable it needs to love diversity.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS cultures
My problem with a single powerful culture comes from growing up in the 1950s. English culture was pleased with itself. Its rejection of difference threatened that the cost of being different would be high. You would be on your own.
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NewsDIY doctors: patients can boost NHS's value
The Budget means the NHS must get better value for money. As the need for efficiency grows, the key is to get patients with chronic illnesses to manage more of their own care
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CommentPaul Corrigan: foundations are the future
Opponents of foundations say that their success and financial strength is the result of unequal advantages - but that should not stop them helping weaker trusts
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Paul Corrigan and Ben Page on PCT accountability
If public services really were owned by the public, accountability would always be at the core of their business. But since this is not the case, all public services must continuously review how they are held accountable.
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HSJ Knowledge
Change of view: improving primary care
GPs in Essex were stimulated by the arrival of an alternative provider contract in their patch, say Hilary Ayerst and Paul Corrigan
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HSJ Knowledge
Improvement culture: four tools for driving change
Making things better is less about the nitty gritty than values, leadership, will and skill
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News
The scrutiny mutiny
SCRUNTINY: What sort of scrutiny can health managers expect from local councils? Paul Corrigan describes a pilot study in which councillors were more interested in being constructive than in settling old scores
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News
Here's looking at you, kid
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
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