Comment archive – Page 350
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Should the irresponsible have a right to NHS care?
It is time to ask whether people who do not look after themselves should pay or wait longer for treatment
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Paul Corrigan on how the third sector will save the NHS
The NHS, like all other healthcare systems in developed countries, will soon run out of money.
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Michael White: libertarians and public health
We know he has had a tough week, but do go easy on Andrew Lansley.
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Media Watch: Lansley's plans for wholesale change
As rumour and speculation over cuts continues, the Financial Times reported that health secretary Andrew Lansley’s proposals for wholesale structural change within the NHS had hit a snag when seen by the committee that resolves intra-coalition government disagreements.
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Clinical engagement is about more than GPs
At last week’s NHS Confederation conference, health secretary Andrew Lansley stressed the need for managers to engage with GPs, while batting away the question of how Treasury officials feel about giving them control of the commissioning purse strings - a question that is not going to go away.
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Clarity is the key to tackling excess admissions
Penalties for trusts doing too many emergency admissions, introduced in April, do not appear to have brought the numbers down.
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Your Humble Servant: Handy Andy
‘It’s been a few months now, and we’ve had no new strategy, plan or output. I can only assume you’ve been stocking up on additional inadequates so that you can get rid of them easily as cost savings to show off to the new ministers’
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Michael White on the NHS budget
Good news of a sort for Andrew Lansley as he faces twin pressures: wholly predictable pressure from the Tory right (plus that nudge from Andy Burnham) to include the NHS in George Osborne’s Budget strategy for public spending cuts, and pressure from the chancellor himself not to let feckless GPs ...
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The bones of a PCT recovery plan
PCTs’ plans for the tough times ahead need both the right ‘anatomy’ and ‘physiology’
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Stephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat
At a recent dinner party, a fellow guest, who happened to be a GP, said: “If I was to invite my colleagues to a meeting about practice based commissioning, I would be there on my own with the sandwiches” (well, actually these days it would be without the sandwiches.).
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Ken Jarrold on the winners and losers of NHS reform
I started reading policy documents on the NHS in 1969. The first was the Green Paper published two years earlier, which launched the discussion about the first major re-organisation.
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Leader
Take a bow as HSJ scoops awards glory
Last week, HSJ was named Media Brand of the Year in the Periodical Publishing Association awards.
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Jon Restell on NHS executive pay
Good employment practice does not make good politics in the bear-pit arena of public sector executive pay, fashioned in the recession, the expenses scandal and “fisca-geddon”.
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Leader
Lansley must keep information flowing while NHS targets ebb away
Andrew Lansley’s keynote speech at this week’s NHS Confederation conference could be the largest audience of health service managers he will ever address as health secretary.
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Why the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health
It may seem crazy talk, but the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health. We can’t afford not to, says John Middleton
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Cally Bann: 'Remember it’s not over until the fat vuvuzela’s blown'
Yes, I want to win the bid to run the community health services. I know there are a few more stages to go. And I know we looked good on paper, and thought that we’d taken our best team to the pitch. And yes, I know the one about the ...
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Media Watch: public sector pensions
In the build-up to Tuesday’s Budget, it was open season on public sector pensions.
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Michael White on hospital reconfigurations
“Oh joy, oh bliss. Now we will get some answers,” I told myself as we were waiting for George Osborne’s emergency cuts budget - (we are still waiting for details of Andrew Lansley’s Brave New NHS World).
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Sheila Williams on coping with change in the NHS
Change is a constant, whether we want it or not. So when change arrives on our doorstep, as it most certainly is about to do, we need to bring all our emotional intelligence to bear on the situation, so we can adjust and help others to adjust accordingly.