Comment archive – Page 301

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Media Watch: minister for laughs

2012-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anna Soubry bolsters her reputation as the most entertaining new health minister

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Readers' letters - 20 September 2012

2012-09-20T00:00:00Z

CCG authorisation conditions should be framed in a way that helps the new organisations focus on the areas they can reasonably influence, says Matthew Harker

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The NHS has failed in efforts to improve health and reduce illness

2012-09-19T15:25:00Z

Interview: Duncan Selbie

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Forty wasted years?

2012-09-19T15:01:00Z

Has the NHS done little to improve public health over the last 38 years?

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Talking dirty on healthcare waste

2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gary Cohen is on a mission to make the health sector live up to its responsibilities

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'Justifying health priorities will not be easy'

2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

CCGs face tough decisions to prioiritise the right patients

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Noel Plumridge: welcome to unpopularity

2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

This is the world of James Reilly, former GP and now Ireland’s health minister

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Michael White: Hunt's ignorance

2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jeremy Hunt’s known positions on health policy are best described as incoherent

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Media Watch: cancel the honeymoon

2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hunt’s media honeymoon was not short, but non-existent

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Robert Francis should be the next CQC chair

2012-09-11T14:20:00Z

History is a guide for who should be Jo Williams’ successor

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Unions are part of the solution

2012-09-11T12:28:00Z

It’s easy to get drawn into the blame game when it comes to relations with unions

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'We are becoming averse to risk'

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sir Hugh Orde knows all about doing public service in the media spotlight. The former chief constable of Northern Ireland urges leaders to keep taking ‘sensible risks’

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Ali Parsa on risk and reward

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sir Hugh Orde’s analysis of risk aversion as a major challenge facing service providers is profound.

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Putting the quality back into QIPP

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pursuing value could be the right step towards transforming the NHS

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The healthcare arms race

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is blinkered to assume the best innovations come from developed nations

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Jan Filochowski on leadership

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sir Hugh Orde’s thoughtful interview raises the obvious question: “How alike are the leadership challenges in healthcare and policing?”

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Fixing the broken system

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered

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What that extra year for QIPP means

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

So, the Department of Health now claims 2008-09 as its year dot

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Media Watch: Sir David and his board

2012-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, declares his newspaper preference

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New secretary of state faces a bulging in-tray

2012-09-05T12:46:00Z

Mike Birtwistle on why Hunt will be unable to keep health out of the news