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News
Pritchard warns strikes threaten elective targets and safety
NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard has warned that meeting key elective recovery targets to eliminate 65-week waiters by March and ensure the waiting list is falling by next year is becoming “increasingly challenging”.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Consultant strike cover ‘costing up to £4,500 per shift’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Doctors 'know best' on resources
Doctors are the best judges of when public resources should be used for patient care, a leading medic has declared.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why the outlook for NHS managers isn't all doom and gloom
Although the health secretary is promising to abolish PCTs within two years, to the tune of nearly 25,000 management posts, concerned managers and GPs may be surprised to find many opportunities await them in the reformed NHS.
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News
BAMM ceases trading and cancels conference
The influential British Association of Medical Managers has ceased trading, just days before its annual conference.
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News
BAMM ceases trading days before annual conference
The influential British Association of Medical Managers has ceased trading, just days before its annual conference.
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News
BAMM welcomes David Cameron's plans for the NHS
Medical managers have welcomed Conservative leader David Cameron’s claim that a Tory-led NHS would see doctors and nurses become more involved in management.
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News
BAMM chief rejects NHS job cut plan
The chief executive of the British Association of Medical Managers has backed the government’s rejection of a report recommending that the NHS cut 137,000 jobs in the next five years to make efficiency savings.
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News
Bruce Keogh tells doctors to ‘seize control of NHS’
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has told clinicians to “stop whinging” and “seize control” of the NHS.
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Blogs
coaching scmoching
Let’s regulate coaching. Let’s make them pass exams and get certificates or ban them from practising. What the hell, let’s go the whole hog and give them a Royal College.
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News
A decade of the national clinical directors - aka the czars
The NHS’s czars, or national clinical directors, have been hailed as a success.
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News
Ex-BBC boss joins national leadership council
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has been named alongside an eclectic list of figures on the national leadership council for the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing for medical revalidation
Medical managers need to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of implementing revalidation. Dr David Scott, chair of the British Medical Association's medical managers sub-committee, and Dr Doug Russell, the committee's primary care representative, explain
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News
Quality accounts: pressure on to pick a winning combination
In 18 months, trusts will have to produce their first quality accounts, based on a selection from hundreds of indicators. Dave West asks how trusts should choose their criteria, and how to act on what they find
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinicians and managers: vive la difference
Clinicians and managers may have very different perspectives, but this can be viewed in a positive light, says Jacky Eyres
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HSJ Knowledge
Is the doctor a museum piece?
A consultation among doctors has revealed discomfort about their future but detected a degree of optimism. Steve Dewar explains the results
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HSJ Knowledge
Doctor-manager relationships: the big fight
NHS hospital power has long been in the hands of two sets of people: managers and clinicians, and tension has occasionally spilled out of the ring. In the latest article in our series on 60 years of the NHS, Daloni Carlisle looks at the dynamics
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HSJ Knowledge
Why are there so few BME managers?
With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports
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HSJ Knowledge
MTAS: after the storm
The dust is still settling on the MTAS debacle, but the future of medical training is far from gloomy. Daloni Carlisle reports
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HSJ Knowledge
The long engagement
A new initiative is aiming to secure a future where medics embrace management. A sound plan or wild optimism? Louise Hunt reports