Comment archive – Page 378
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Steve Onyett on healthcare reform
To describe the underpinning principles of the new Department of Health approach to change, health secretary Alan Johnson and NHS chief executive David Nicholson use the terms co-production, subsidiarity, clinical ownership and leadership, and system alignment.
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Yi Mien Koh on a week in the life of an NHS manager
It is always a valuable exercise to look back at the week, reviewing where our time has been spent and what has come of it.
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Is your employer in the Healthcare 100 club?
Do you work for one of the best health employers in the country?
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For the highest calibre NHS leaders, this is your chance to shine
As HSJ's exclusive world class commissioning league table reveals this week, most primary care trusts have emerged from the first round of world class commissioning with good foundations in place.
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Michael White on contaminated blood
It never ceases to amaze me how society attaches different value to different lives.
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Jason Warner on improving learning disabilities services
There is evidence that many people with a learning disability are more susceptible to poorer health than the rest of the UK population.
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Jenny Rogers on NHS whistleblowing dilemmas
When talk turns to whistleblowing in the public sector, and how organisations can make it easier for the whistle to be heard, the solution usually suggested is a whistleblowing policy.
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The Clinical Leaders Network: delivering better care
Dr Amir Hannan talks about how the Clinical Leaders Network has helped him deliver a new clinical assessment and treatment service in Greater Manchester
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Mike Cooke on health research and innovation
The health research and innovation field is complex but exciting. It needs to be joined up much more in future to make research and researchers more 'service facing' and also to make the NHS more receptive to translating research and innovation into clinical practice.
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NHS leaders: don't lose touch with your communities
While there is near universal revulsion at the idea of merging primary care trusts in another reorganisation, joint working is gathering pace.
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Confed chief's challenge is to get network choir singing in harmony
In this week's HSJ new NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett spells out his vision for the organisation.
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Noel Plumridge on the grim reality of NHS finance
'Look out, not up' is a phrase currently being muttered in the corridors of power at the Department of Health.
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Fight healthcare acquired infections with conviction
Techniques for minimising healthcare acquired infection are well understood. Success is now just a matter of ensuring they are prioritised by all staff, says Janice Stevens
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Your Humble Servant on councillor counselling
‘We are faced with a glorious mix of councillors, some so young they’d obviously been selected for seats they hadn’t been expected to win and have had to be parked out of trouble until they are out of nappies’
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Michael White on the Health Bill
The world economy may tremble, but life goes on. So the House of Lords is getting stuck into the government's ragbag new Health Bill in its own inimitable way.
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Keith Pearson on encouraging organ donation
Britain urgently needs more donated organs. It has one of the worst organ donation rates in Western Europe.
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Peter Reader on the future of NHS leadership
For the last decade I have been on a journey of development and discovery that has taken me from general practice into clinical leadership and management.
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Stephen Ramsden on seeing patient safety through
The national Patient Safety First campaign has asked that any trust signing up commits to making the safety of patients its highest priority.
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Ken Jarrold on advice for NHS managers
One piece of advice I frequently give myself and others is based on the words of an old prayer that I carry with me.
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Andrea Sutcliffe on embedding quality in the NHS
As other HSJ columnists have pointed out, the NHS operating framework for 2009-10, published by the Department of Health in December, sets out a challenging agenda for boards over the next year.