All Comment articles – Page 241
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Michael White on NHS spending cuts
Gordon Brown’s belated admission of looming spending cuts unleashed a masochistic torrent of bid and counter-bid by leading politicians.
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Media Watch: NHS cost cutting
At the start of last week, the papers were obsessed with Gordon Brown’s first use of the C-word. By the end of the week politicians of all hues were at it and it was impossible to get away from it.
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Paul Corrigan on NHS reform
NHS reform requires the creation of significant parts of the NHS system that are independent of the Department of Health and the NHS mainstream hierarchy of the past.
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Nicky Spencer on handling NHS complaints
It’s tempting to avoid complaints or that quiet aside that indicates dissatisfaction with our services. But it’s a false economy. Dealing well with complaints as early as you can saves time, resources and reputation, and improves quality.
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Gary Belfield on world class commissioning
World class commissioning is not a status to be achieved and retained but an ongoing process of improvement which has patients’ changing needs at its heart
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Simon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons.
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Pete Mason on covert NHS leadership
A covert leader has a rather dramatic ring to it and sounds like someone likely to be heading up a secret unit on an international mission - all very James Bond.
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Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets
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Your Humble Servant: NHS carbon reduction
‘The NHS could immediately achieve much larger savings if the SHAs, Monitor and CQC stopped emitting the whole time… after all there is carbon in flatulence isn’t there?’
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Michael White on the election battle
This week’s TUC conference signals the start of the political season, when the rhetorical volume gets turned up.
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Media Watch: Andy Burnham and patient experience
This week the press went to town on how health secretary Andy Burnham is planning to shackle hospital budgets to patient experience for the first time.
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Michael White on NHS spending and the McKinsey report
As if last week wasn’t more than usually nightmare-ish enough for the NHS’s managerial officer class, with a convicted murderer’s birthmarks and the leaked McKinsey report providing only two of many horrid headlines, this week started with a fresh jolt.
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'People, the NHS needs managers'
The media seized on HSJ’s scoop on the Department of Health-commissioned McKinsey report.
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Mike Farrar on QIPP - quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
QIPP needs to become woven into the NHS’s DNA, and efficiencies come from the avoidable use of NHS resources, effective partnerships and best practice
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Cally Bann: psychopathic managers
September: everyone’s favourite board. Papers the weight of a Nigella compendium but without the taste, tease or titillation. Unless you get your rocks off on the compliance return, the assurance framework, the risk register or the update on the implementation of the HR strategy 2007-11.
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Jon Restell on NHS managers fighting back
The politics for managers in all four UK health services are tough, and the fiscal squeeze and a forthcoming general election make them tougher.
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John Redwood on NHS efficiency
Having experienced success and failure in a wide variety of organisations, the former Welsh secretary spells out his recipe for an effective and efficient NHS
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Michael White: the US healthcare debate
Senator Edward Kennedy’s death struck people my age with an obvious historical analogy. Just as Jack Kennedy’s murder in 1963 allowed allies to clinch stalled civil rights legislation for black Americans, so Barack Obama’s allies can now regain momentum for healthcare reform - Ted Kennedy’s enduring liberal cause.
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Media Watch: nurses, hospital food and cricket
Last week nurses came under fire. All 300,000 of them were momentarily tarred with the same brush that had painted the 16 examples of poor care highlighted by the Patients Association last week.
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Paul Corrigan on NHS values and reality
NHS values concerning equal access for all, free at the point of need, are the core of its culture.