All Service redesign articles – Page 188

  • News

    We will keep it local, says Scots minister

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's cabinet secretary for health and well-being has announced the new executive government would take 'an assumption against centralisation of services'.

  • News

    Trust scores legal victory

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.

  • News

    Target-chasing managers suffer 'pathological' levels of stress

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Too many new policies, a lack of coherent strategy and invasive performance management are creating 'pathological' levels of stress among NHS middle managers, an NHS Confederation report has warned.

  • Comment

    'Turnaround teams' - a sticking plaster for a severed limb?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The ability to commission effective and efficient services is completely divorced from strategies to implement and provide cost-effective services, argue Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Storing up trouble: the problem with materials

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Seven months ago I joined the NHS from a role in operational management in manufacturing. One of the first things I noticed is that we seem to have missed the point on managing materials.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: 'NHS penpushers'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'NHS penpushers are paid £1.5m for doing nothing' the Daily Mail told its readers as the tabloids frothed earlier this week over news that the Department of Health is paying £1.5m to civil servants whose jobs have been made redundant.

  • Comment

    Michael White: media spin

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Judicial review looms on the consultation process and voters don't need media spin to feel cheated'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'

  • Comment

    Michael White on YouTube politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'

  • Comment

    Michael White on the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach

  • Comment

    Michael White: the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'