Comment archive – Page 349
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CommentThe new healthcare revolution
Does the white paper outline a great leap forward or a just a step backwards?
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LeaderThere is no time to waste as GPs grasp the scale of the challenge
If primary care trust managers, GPs or indeed anyone else thought the consultation document on commissioning accompanying the white paper would answer most of their questions about the new policy, they have now been disabused.
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CommentMark Goldman on fatal mistakes in the NHS
We relive dramatic moments in the media on action replay. Something terrible happens; a missed penalty, a putt hanging on the edge of the hole or a tyre bursting on the final lap.
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CommentMedia Watch: lazy and unproductive?
Many NHS staff won’t be getting a pay rise and fear for their jobs, but they are lazy and unproductive too, newspaper reports suggest.
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CommentMichael White: Lansley's five priorities for the NHS
It was cheering to spot Andrew Lansley’s five priorities for the NHS, public health and social care on the department’s website the other day. We need reassurance that he does have a coherent overview.
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CommentSteve Preston on how to win through redundancy
The challenging public service picture is changing redundancies in the health service from rarity to stark reality.
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Leader‘Heroic’ NHS managers get their due from friend and foe
“Heroic” is not a word often used to describe NHS managers, so well done to NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson for praising the individual efforts of primary care trust and strategic health authority leaders.
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CommentAnswering the NHS's £14bn productivity question
Government efforts have reduced the NHS productivity challenge by £6bn, but also increased its instability
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CommentMark Britnell: PCTs can carve out a new role
Judging from the anxious reaction to the white paper this is not a time for the faint-hearted. It is time for bold leadership. For those who relish disruptive innovation, this is the time to seize the opportunities presented by discontinuity.
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CommentMedia Watch: eye-watering, mouth-watering NHS cash
As the dust settles on last week’s health white paper, it seems the newspapers believe the reforms will lead to somebody somewhere making easy money.
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CommentMichael White: the cancer target
A thoughtful politician friend of mine said with uncharacteristic impatience the other day: “No, I don’t think the coalition knows what it’s doing at all. I think it’s all over the place.”
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CommentYour Humble Servant: Going La La
‘Up pops La La at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Parliament and on Newsnight saying he had no idea it would come to this’
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CommentNicky Spencer on making your career your business
Inspiration on steering your career through a recession is peculiarly sparse. But by applying the plethora of business advice to your career you can create some useful tips.
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CommentGPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?
The quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programme, a colleague once said, is like redesigning a plane while attempting to fly it.
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CommentTories’ NHS vision poses a screening programme test
With public health firmly on the agenda, what kind of role can we expect for screening?
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CommentCally Bann: GPs are the masters of our destiny
Now we know. GPs are the masters of our destiny, but not until they are ready, which is sometime between lunchtime tomorrow and 2017. So, best not let the grass grow. Time to get the GP preparedness plan out the drawer.
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CommentMedia Watch: obesity and public health
Obesity and poor diets were eating many journalists as the government relaxed its attempts to control people’s lifestyles.
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CommentMichael White: no aspect of the NHS will be untouched
It is a handy principle that any health secretary who falls foul of the British Medical Association and other NHS trade unions can’t be all bad, not least because the BMA’s response to Andrew Lansley’s mid-summer gift to GPs looks a touch ungrateful.
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LeaderManagers have been unfairly served by the rushed reforms
“In the crucial area of public service reform, we have found that Liberal Democrat and Conservative ideas are stronger combined… You have a united vision for the NHS that is truly radical: GPs with authority over commissioning… elections for your local NHS health board.”
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CommentPete Mason on how the government can achieve its goals for the NHS
The government’s health policy can broadly be judged as logical and appropriate to the challenges ahead, but several areas need to be addressed for the strategy to achieve its goals - and it will take some time to bed down.