Comment archive – Page 383
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CommentCan healthcare spending thaw icy economies?
Health spending represents great value both as a short term economic stimulus and for its long term economic benefits.
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CommentNeil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
As a manager, you are meant to give three pieces of praise for every piece of criticism. That’s the minimum ratio experts believe is effective in encouraging good performance.
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CommentManagers' pay rises and cold weather costs
Managers in Scotland will have taken cover this week, especially from junior nurses, after their salary increases were revealed by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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CommentMichael White on Tory health policy
The core of the Tory green paper seems to be protecting a locally driven public health budget.
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LeaderFour nations: was England’s approach to the NHS on target after all?
Research published this week by the Nuffield trust has reignited the debate over the value of health service targets.
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CommentJenny Rogers on the pitfalls of assessing risk in the NHS
What we want in the NHS is intelligent risk assessment and people brave enough to allow compassion and common sense to prevail.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: manifest nonsense
‘Imagine - under the Tories, we are going to have new NHS organisations called foundation trusts, a tariff payment process, a choose and book system, a quality and outcomes framework for paying GPs and a formula that channels NHS funds to poorer areas’
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Brian James: how to save NHS services in a recession
If politicians want to protect frontline services, they should ask those working there what they should do
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CommentSophia Christie on a crumbling model of healthcare
Much health policy is about achieving a balance. A common tension is that between the popularity of “local” and the necessity of “strategic”.
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CommentZimmer frames in the snow and sinister swine flu
Ten days ago it looked as though we would get nothing but blanket coverage of the snow - in both senses - for days on end.
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CommentMichael White on the cost of alcohol
Commons health select committee chair Kevin Barron was enjoying a Sunday night glass of Shiraz when I rang to discuss his report on how to tackle Britain’s costly upsurge in alcoholism.
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LeaderCQC SOS: high stakes mean it is essential registration succeeds
The Care Quality Commission is in difficulty.
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CommentSheila Williams on communication and metaphors
Over the past few weeks, I ran into a brick wall with a project, burned the candle at both ends and then saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
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CommentMichael White on the Conservatives' election campaign
Why did my heart sink watching David Cameron launching what amounts to the Conservatives’ general election campaign on Monday, complete with well trailed health pledges and a wholesome poster proclaiming “I’ll cut the deficit. Not the NHS”?
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LeaderPut the brakes on NHS car park consultation
If ever there was an example of pointless Department of Health micromanagement it is the launch of the consultation paper on car parking.
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LeaderTories’ tempered pledges show the effect of political realities
The Conservatives’ draft manifesto on health offers subtle changes to the party’s health policies.
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CommentJohn Deffenbaugh asks what next for foundation trusts
How would a Tory government bring up Labour’s young provider model?
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CommentAndrew Jones on healthcare Darwinism
What is the most important book ever written? Most clinicians will refer you to On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
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CommentCally Bann: bah humbug
Now I’m no Scrooge, and the words bah and humbug have never once crossed my lips, if you ignore that time in 1986 when I got caught under the A&E mistletoe by a lothario of the Superbrew. But - looking back in the cold light of January - never again ...
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CommentPublic sector pay scrutiny
It may be a new decade, but it is a familiar story facing NHS managers returning to their desks after the Christmas holidays.