All Health Service Journal articles in 15 October 2009 – Page 3

  • Richard Vize
    Leader

    GP commissioning is turning in its grave

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Practice based commissioning is dead. Primary care tsar David Colin-Thomé, unable to find signs of life, has written its death certificate.

  • Jumping the pay cut gun
    Community

    Jumping the pay cut gun

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    You might have expected the Royal College of Nursing to quickly denounce the Tories’ plans to freeze pay after they were announced last Tuesday. But, by the end of the day, HSJ had not heard a thing.

  • Andrew Lansley
    Community

    The three Es

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    If education is all about the three Rs, it seems that health, under the Tories anyway, will be focused on the three Es.

  • Community

    The other half

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    With talk of job losses and pay cuts abounding, NHS staff are gearing up for a zero sum game, accusing other clinical professions of being underworked and ineffective.

  • Community

    Keep me waiting

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Fresh from causing controversy at the Conservative conference, Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill caused another stir at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust diversity summit.

  • Steve Ford
    Comment

    Media Watch: working time menace

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The apparent failure of the second swine flu surge to turn into a plague of biblical proportions - touch wood - has left the media searching for a new killer.

  • Michael White
    Comment

    Michael White on Tory worries

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    I was slightly surprised this week to find myself trudging into expenses-gripped Westminster for the last parliamentary session before the election more troubled by the prospect of a new Conservative government than I was a week ago.

  • Community

    In a muddle

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, the NHS Confederation’s chief executive Steve Barnett was keen to extol the virtues of managers and clinicians working together to develop innovative ways to improve patient care and reduce cost.

  • Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley
    News

    Health check shows NHS is not focusing on quality - Andrew Lansley

    2009-10-15T10:25:00Z

    Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the annual health check showed there was not enough focus on improving quality in the NHS. 

  • Intelligent clinical leadership in mental health
    HSJ Knowledge

    Intelligent clinical leadership in mental health

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Alex Horne explains why it is essential for mental health trusts to share their financial intelligence with clinicians