All Comment articles – Page 232
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CommentMichael White: Lansley battles to keep reforms afloat
Colonel Gaddafi may have benefited from the rival distraction of Japan’s apocalyptic tsunami, but Andrew Lansley has no such luck. As HSJ’s editorial asks if he is “screaming inside”, wave after political wave rolls over him.
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CommentYorkshire trusts could soon start to see cracks appear
The NHS in Yorkshire has for years papered over the cracks of financial unsustainability in its second largest organisation, North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust.
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CommentMergers making their mark on the South East Coast
Merger is the name of the game in Kent at the moment.
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CommentMedia watch: Lib Dems' wash hands of reforms in spring conference
The papers this week were full of the Liberal Democrat spring conference’s rejection of the government’s health reforms.
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CommentYour humble servant: the spectre of Stalin looms over year end
It’s difficult to make end of financial year decisions when pain aligns so closely with pleasure.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: what will the year end yield for trust finances?
Ever wondered why financial years begin in April? It’s the crop cycle.
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CommentWhat will the private sector do with failed hospitals?
The setting of a final deadline for NHS trusts to apply for foundation status is certainly focusing minds and starting to move long-postponed jobs out of the “too hard” tray, but the unpalatable truth is that some trusts are not going to make it by the drop-dead date of 1 ...
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CommentWhat do we really care about in the NHS?
While there are plenty of people who care about making the system work, in striving for improved access and technical excellence we seem to have stopped caring for the whole person. So what is it we really care about?
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CommentMichael White: disquiet over accountability grows in the health war
The most startling political utterance I heard during another lively week in the health war fell not from the lips of Andrew Lansley, nor even from militant (“Back to the 1930s”) medics, but from mild mannered Stephen Dorrell.
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Comment'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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CommentCluster forming work sets sail in the South
Transition to the so called “new world” of commissioning is gathering pace in the South West and South Central regions, as work to form clusters begins in earnest.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: when it comes to GP income, how long is a piece of string?
Just how much does a GP earn? The NHS Information Centre estimates average GP income in 2008-09 (the latest figures available) as £105,300. But any average conceals variations.
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CommentEast of England commissioners transfer financial pressures to providers
Struggling commissioners in the East of England are putting pressure on providers.
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers dine out on free lunch
Did you go to the big match at the weekend? If so, who paid for the tickets?
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Comment'There are no winners while there is 'them and us' tribalism in the NHS'
“Them and us”. All too often an off-hand remark and the death knell of a beautiful conversation, usually with the word “tariff” thrown in.
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CommentMichael White: Lansley's cloudy vision blurs the clear NHS reality
Watching the drama of health reform debate week after week, I sometimes think of a clever young Tory think tanker called Danny Kruger. Remember him?In 2005 Danny was forced to stand down as his party’s candidate to fight Tony Blair in Sedgefield because he had been heard promising “a period ...
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CommentMedia Watch: abortion, obesity and homosexuality proivde perfect storm
The Sunday Telegraph found something of a perfect storm in its story about gay NHS managers being sent on a “luxury junket”.
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Comment'Without a firm battle plan, consortia might find themselves neither here nor there'
The grand old health secretary risks getting the new consortia stuck on the hill, unless a change in strategy to push them higher up the slope of success is attempted.
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CommentSouth east coast PCTs face uncertain financial futures
Heading towards the end of the 2010-11, the financial situation for primary care trusts in the South East Coast differs markedly across the region.