Comment archive – Page 428
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Richard Gleave on rewards and reprimands
One of the main debates in US healthcare policy is how to financially reward healthcare providers for delivering 'excellent' care.
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Aidan Halligan on why Darzi needs clinical leadership
The NHS must do more to develop clinical leadership if it is to achieve the aims set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review of the service
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Steve Onyett on NHS complexity
One of the biggest challenges in conveying the profound implications of complexity theory is its name. What could be less appealing to busy staff?
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Darzi review will be a success when it causes managers grief
Lord Darzi’s next stage review has been met with a remarkable degree of support. The few critics have failed to shoot any substantial holes in it.
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Partnership is key to delivering Lord Darzi’s NHS vision
Lord Darzi’s Final Report High Quality Care for All puts quality at the heart of the NHS. His vision can only be achieved on the required scale through new forms of partnership between public, private and third sectors.For healthcare providers, there are some exciting incentives to encourage new service models:As ...
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Your Humble Servant in 1948
Dear Lord Donald of WiseIt is my humble duty and sincere pleasure to present to you this first report of the General Hospital board of management for the National Health Service.
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Media Watch: response to Darzi
If Lord Darzi reads his press he will be basking and bawling in equal measure.
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Nigel Edwards on Darzi's big ideas
The 'once in a generation' billing given to health minister Lord Darzi's review, published this week, might have caused some alarm after so much change in the last few years.
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Michael White on Darzi politics
Even before the saintly Lord Darzi uttered the first sentence of his latest report, or Henley had even voted, the Cameroon Conservatives had got their NHS retaliation in first.
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Hilary Thomas on clinical governance and values
An old friend has just been in touch, having found one of my HSJ columns through Google.
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Helen Bevan on the NHS as a global leader
I have just returned from Saskatchewan, Canada. I was invited to the province as a 'critical friend' of its healthcare transformation strategy.
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Paul Stanton on local legitimacy in the NHS
In the first article of this series, I began to explore the nature and the scale of the challenges that confront NHS organisations and those who govern them in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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Door slams shut on targets and opens on a world of outcomes
In the corridors of health policy there is now an unseemly rush to be the first through the door marked 'outcomes'.
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Acute's leftovers won't feed public health
At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.
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Emma Dent on Confed dilemmas
Good Lord readers, it's that time again. How quickly it comes round. Of what am I talking? The NHS Confederation annual conference, of course.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Michael White on public health
The other weekend I found myself discussing the public sector with an old leftie who had worked most of his life in housing and hated what he feels the Blair-Brown governments have done. In a word, marketisation.
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Andrew Kirby on how information can improve healthcare
In his draft Queen's Speech, prime minister Gordon Brown outlined a further round of performance targets for the NHS.
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Edzard Ernst on alternative medicine
People must not confuse the perceived benefits of so-called alternative medicine with the medical facts. Claims made about such treatments should be more tightly regulated to protect patients from unscrupulous practitioners.
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Maggie Rae on world class shopping
'Tired of shopping yet?' shouted a colleague. A gentle reference to my earnest attempts to improve our delivery of the world class commissioning standards.