All Comment articles – Page 238
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Steve Preston on understanding your skills
Analyse and review your skills to establish which ones are transferable.
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Michael White: the Queen's Speech
For a seven minute royal speech which was criticised for not once mentioning what David Cameron called “the three letters that should be in any Queen’s Speech” - NHS - it was quite a boisterous occasion for health and social services. So let us start on a positive party political ...
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Your Humble Servant: election gamble
‘There is no easy or predictable way of knowing how to please Labour and live to tell the tale’
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Simon Stevens on incentives for doctors vs incentives for patients
Stop the presses for some shock news. British GPs are happy. At least relatively speaking.
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Media Watch: couples therapy
One story got blanket coverage in the papers this week, largely down to it having what is known in the trade as a good news “hook”.
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Nick Bosanquet: history offers the NHS survival skills
As rising costs and a tidal wave of public expectations push the NHS towards a new funding crisis, managers would do well to study the lessons history offers
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Beyond practice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning may not quite be a “corpse not for resuscitation” but it’s pretty clear the policy has had limited success in engaging clinicians in decisions about how NHS money is spent across the country.
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Jenny Rogers on managing your manager
While millions of words are routinely given to the topic of managing subordinates, relatively few are ever devoted to how to manage upwards.
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Media Watch: patient records
Medical records and their security, or lack of, was the main topic likely to pique NHS managers’ interest in the news this week - if, that is, you discount stories about the “miracle jab for snorers” and the “mindbend potheads” who are apparently flooding the NHS.
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Jon Restell: NHS managers on the ropes
Everyone I talk to assumes that managers in the health service must be sweating.
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Michael White: lessons from US healthcare
I stumbled on a way of thinking about NHS budgets the other day which I hadn’t previously encountered.
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Paul Corrigan: commissioning competencies
Most, if not all, primary care trusts will improve their commissioning competencies over the next few months. This will be an important step towards gearing up commissioning to play its full role.
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Liz Kendall on urgent care efficiency
More hospital admissions could be avoided if people needing emergency and urgent care were managed differently rather than just being taken to A&E
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Ken Jarrold on motivating NHS managers
The latest annual health check ratings raise some important and difficult questions. It is time to think again about performance management.
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Media Watch: private patients, statins and scurvy
Although the row over the sacking of government drugs adviser David Nutt continued to dominate the headlines, many health correspondents sought their fixes elsewhere this week.
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Michael White: FT freedoms and the election
Barely a couple of days pass without some potentially significant policy shift on the health and social care front from the political parties.
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Stephen Eames on managing the future of the NHS
At a recent trust board seminar to review our performance and development over the past year, we recognised that we were at a watershed moment. We acknowledged the years ahead would be driven by the recession and the multibillion pound recovery programme the government intends to generate from public services.
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David Nicholson: ride the wave of NHS innovation
Linking quality and productivity via innovation to produce efficiency gains is the most important long term challenge facing the NHS, and it needs action at all levels
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David Colin-Thomé on practice based commissioning
I feel I need to contribute further to the debate generated by my recent choice of words - used while attempting to raise the profile of practice based commissioning implementation.
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Cally Bann: Halloween and bonfire night bash
Running a hospital? Meat and drink. Organising the annual staff Halloween meets bonfire night? Don’t even go there.