Comment archive – Page 314
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CommentMichael White: the coalition may sustain heavy damage by seeing the bill through
What price Lansley’s eventual victory?
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CommentMedia Watch: open season declared on defiant Lansley
Another week, another drubbing for Andrew Lansley. Papers reported with glee the latest twist in the Health Bill soap opera with senior Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes apparently breaking ranks to call for the health secretary to be “moved on”.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
Where is the detail on tariff for 2013 and beyond?
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CommentCoastal configuration for vascular services runs aground
The proposed centralisation of complex vascular surgery in Hampshire has been mothballed after trusts failed to agree on the plans.
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CommentMental health provider under scrutiny in the South West
NHS Bristol’s decision to re-tender the city’s mental health service comes at a bad time for current provider Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust.
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LeaderThe Health Bill plan B is dead, but plan C lives on
David Cameron has made passing the Health Bill a matter of confidence – making it close to impossible the legislation will fail. We now need to ask what kind of bill will be passed and what will happen afterwards.
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CommentAndrew Lansley: competition is critical for NHS reform
The section of the Health Bill which seeks to increase competition within the NHS is the focus of the growing row over the legislation. Here, in an exclusive article, a defiant health secretary Andrew Lansley champions the importance of competition.
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Comment'Hospitals should be hungry for quality patient meals'
“The story of the failure to provide tasty, healthy food in British hospitals is a result of an indefensible failure by those in charge of hospitals to understand the basic importance of good food to good health.”
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CommentDoes the cost of private healthcare exceed the benefit?
There is little doubt that private sector involvement in the NHS can bring benefits to the service, but, argues Ian Greener, the costs of the NHS supporting private healthcare could outweigh the return.
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CommentCommissioning for Social Value: a vision for people, practices and communities
The Public Services Bill 2010 could help healthcare commissioning and procurement deliver wider social benefits to the community than population health, as David Maher and colleagues explain.
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CommentDavid Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
Rather than distracting from the NHS efficiency challenge, the Health Bill could help achieve it, writes David Kerr.
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CommentMedia Watch: the NHS money lost in translation
Health took a back seat this week as the news was dominated by atrocities in Syria, the resignation of Chris Huhne and the snow that Media Watch was so sceptical about last week.
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Comment'There is inherent value in high quality outcomes data'
Patient outcomes can provide value no matter what the NHS looks like.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: PFI bailouts are a sign of things to come
Those who are worried that the current top-down reconfiguration of the NHS will be the last of its kind received some good cheer last week, when the seven lucky recipients of its £1.5bn private finance initiative bailout scheme were announced.
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CommentSurrey backs reforms ahead of public health push
Issues of public health past and present have emerged in Surrey and its surrounding area.
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Stroke care in the East of England proving problematic
Providing first class stroke care is problematic in the East of England.
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LeaderDoes the government really have a Plan B for NHS reform?
As the Health Bill staggers through the House of Lords and opposition grows to it in a daily basis, the question is reasonably asked whether the government has a Plan B.
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LeaderGovernment won't enjoy efficiency gained from public sector borrowing
Can efficiency be achieved through increased public spending?
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LeaderCameron's comparison to Blair only highlights the differences
Miliband uses HSJ’s joint editorial to challenge Cameron over reform.