All Simon Stevens articles – Page 21
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: The independent NHS enters uncharted waters
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The ‘pin the blame on the donkey’ game gets under way
With a recent double sourced leak having begun the blame game for the NHS funding in the Budget, Andy Cowper analyses the game of political football being played out
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Leader'Which of the children do we shoot first?' - the budget leaves the NHS with harsh choices
The government has a very clear ambition for the £1.6bn additional funding allocated to the NHS for 2018-19. £1bn is to be used to arrest the decline in elective waiting times and to begin to reduce the waiting list; £600m will be employed to make sure the NHS meets the ...
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NewsAutumn budget 2017: How to tell if the NHS has won or lost
The chancellor is expected to announce new funding for the NHS in the budget. HSJ highlights what to look out for and what the government will want in return.
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HSJ LocalOutstanding trust wins five year £195m contract outside patch
One of the country’s leading mental health trusts has won a £195m contract to provide community health services in Bedfordshire.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A Budget for putting politics above prosperity
We’re approaching a moment when a government that has been warned that the NHS funding situation will threaten quality, access and safety is going to choose to ignore that warning, says Andy Cowper in the runup to the Budget
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NewsGovernment signs off London health devolution deal
London’s long awaited health devolution deal has been signed off by government, following months of delay.
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CommentSupport local leaders or risk having no leaders in future
The NHS’s current management approach favours the stick rather than the carrot, leading to huge pressures on local leaders and could undermine the success of STPs, warns Helen Buckingham
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CommentLifting the cap: Paying for the pay rise
The often repeated strategy of getting NHS staff to deliver more for less has run out of road, says Harry Quliter-Pinner
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Send lawyers, guns and money to the antagonish
Who benefits from the recently leaked information about Simon Stevens being made personally responsible for NHS’s winter performance, ponders Andy Cowper
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CommentStevens' mission on NHS funding will go on beyond the budget
Simon Stevens’ funding call ahead of the budget has grabbed headlines, but why was it necessary and how will it go down in Whitehall?
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NewsStevens: Waiting list will hit 5 million by 2021 without extra money
The elective waiting list will balloon to 5 million patients by 2021 and ambitions to improve mental health and cancer care will be jeopardised unless the NHS gets a major funding boost in line with pre-2010 increases, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsHSJ Live 08.11.17: Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt speeches - catch up
Simon Stevens made a significant intervention ahead of the budget
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NewsStevens invokes Brexit battle bus in pre-budget funding call
Simon Stevens will today step up his calls for the government to increase NHS spending in coming years, suggesting voters will feel betrayed if promises made in the Brexit campaign are not delivered.
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NewsHopson: NHS leaders' careers at risk over 'impossible targets'
NHS leaders are being held to “unjust and unfair” standards by the centre, with careers put at risk over “impossible” performance targets, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson has said.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: ‘The Tragedy Of The Commons’ meets ‘Only Connect’
With things looking quite dark in the NHS, we can only hope that the forthcoming Budget will improve the situation even as we try to put a quart of healthcare demand into a pint pot of healthcare resource, says Andy Cowper
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NewsStevens: Higher pay needed to help recruitment in unpopular regions
NHS staff should be paid more to work in unpopular areas of the country to maintain “equitable access” to healthcare, Simon Stevens has said.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The big machine or the ecosystem?
NHS bosses are using loopholes in law to slowly transform the NHS from an ecosystem into a big machine, which could lead to unintended consequences, notes Andy Cowper
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CommentBrexit could turn the digital talent tide back towards Europe – how can we keep Britain innovating?
Can London keep the global digital health crown post-Brexit and rise to Simon Stevens’ rallying cry for “further, faster” digital progress in the NHS? Dr Felix Jackson has some suggestions
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper