All articles by Sir Chris Ham – Page 3
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CommentCanterbury tale: making a success of integrated care
The New Zealand health organisation provides a template
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HSJ KnowledgePodcast: Engaging doctors in leadership post Francis
The King’s Fund’s Chris Ham talks to hsj.co.uk
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CommentMedical leadership is vital for quality patient care
We need more doctors in leadership roles, says Chris Ham
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BlogsNick Clegg or Nigel Farage: who should NHS leaders model themselves on?
NHS leaders need to decide whether to focus on what is in the best interests of their organisations, or be willing to share sovereignty and work with others.
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BlogsNHS leaders of the future: more Thatcher or Nyborg?
NHS leaders could do worse than taking notes from Borgen prime minister Birgitte Nyborg on building alliances with others and finding unlikely common causes, says Chris Ham
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BlogsDeveloping integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
There is not one best way to develop integrated care. Politicians, NHS leaders and frontline staff should join together to test different approaches, writes the King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham reflects on attempts to reconfigure services in the capital
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CommentFixing the broken system
Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered
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Engagement matters - here's why
“Evidence-based common sense” was how Peter Lees described the Fund’s new report on leadership in the NHS at our Summit on 23 May. The report draws on evidence demonstrating the relationship between staff engagement and organisational performance to make the case for a new style of leadership. If the NHS ...
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Comment'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
Professor Chris Ham on leadership for engagment.
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Integrated care and why the NHS needs more deviant leaders
Local leaders are ahead of the game, writes Chris Ham.
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Comment'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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Comment'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
The US integrated healthcare system Kaiser Permanente is an example of ‘innovative disruption’ in all its joined-up glory. The King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham highlights some of the benefits a similar system could give the NHS.
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If the NHS is doing well, why is it changing?
A recent Commonwealth Fund survey saw respondents praise the NHS. So are the reforms aimed at addressing the right problems?
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Comment'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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Comment'It makes a welcome change to hear praise for NHS managers'
Sir David Nicholson’s letter to colleagues after the spending review recognised that great public service leadership “more than anything else” will be central to improving quality and productivity.
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CommentGPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
Giving GPs freedom to innovate while protecting patients will be a difficult balance
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers
Concluding their look at integrated healthcare services, Judith Smith and Chris Ham set out seven proposals for making it happen in light of the Equity and Excellence white paper
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HSJ KnowledgeRemoving policy barriers to integrated healthcare
Closer integration of care may be taking on an ever-higher profile, but it is often thwarted by government policy, write Chris Ham and Judith Smith