Comment archive – Page 295
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CommentTransforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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CommentWe must root out ageism in NHS cancer care
Bold steps now can improve cancer care in the long term
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Readers' letters - 20 December 2012
Reaction to the impact on general practice of a new funding formula and the future budget for specialised commissioning. Plus why front line nurses are not to blame for a lack of compassionate care
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CommentNHS managers' car metaphors belong on the scrapheap
Managers’ language can be damaging for the wider workforce
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CommentHealth leaders on Twitter have a public health responsibility
Health leaders can use social media to improve public health
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CommentNHS must plan for a longer austerity than we imagined
The autumn statement reveals frightening truths about savings
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CommentToo big to fail: why PFI will get a helping hand in an emergency
PFI creditors are likely to be protected when NHS trusts fail
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CommentA timely strategy for hospitals to cope with demand
Acute trusts cannot prevent overcrowding but they can reduce demand
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LeaderWhy policing and school reform are inspiring Jeremy Hunt
Hunt approaches his brief very differently from Lansley
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CommentMiles Ayling on health delivery
How will the NHS drive improvements in quality and value at a time of significant financial pressure?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: Gilding the NHS settlement lily
Paul Baumann may struggle to spread some seasonal cheer to CCGs
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Comment‘What we need is to find problems that are exquisitely difficult’
Brunel University’s professor of healthcare systems Terry Young is on a quest to bring modelling and simulation into health service delivery
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CommentMichael White: some notes on some scandals
Care scandals must not always leave the buck with hard-pressed staff
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CommentWhy the friends and family test won't work
The test will overload NHS leaders with more meaningless data
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CommentFulfilling the mandate will be worth the effort
Developing the NHS mandate was complex and time consuming but it is a good document
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CommentHSJ100 2012: Under 'Baron' Nicholson, a new health aristocracy takes shape
Sir David Nicholson divides the world of healthcare leaders between “barons” and “knights”.
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How the HSJ100 is judged
The HSJ100 seeks to indicate who will have the greatest influence over English health policy and the NHS in the 12 months from November 2012.
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CommentA research engine could drive the NHS to lead the world
Through more open data sharing and by driving clinical trials the NHS can again be the ‘envy of the world’
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HSJ100 2012: Waiting for Mr Francis
The seventh year of the HSJ100 in the wake of the passage of the Health Act reveals a landscape under transition as well as scrutiny.
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LeaderCSUs are heading for centre-stage
The vision for commissioning support units is expanding under Bob Ricketts