All David Nicholson articles – Page 11
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NewsNicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson believes he should survive any criticism levelled at him by the forthcoming report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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CommentMichael White: escalation in healthcare's culture wars
The Francis inquiry has riled the public and private sectors
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: MPs to probe policy of health budget underspending
The chair of the health select committee has warned that there could be a “significant danger of perverse incentives” if the health service remains unable to carry over unspent funds from one financial year to the next.
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NewsBoards could be made to declare staff level is safe
Hospital boards could be required to publicly declare their staffing levels are appropriate at least twice a year, under plans set out in the chief nursing officers’ vision and strategy for nursing.
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BlogsProtecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?
Sir David Nicholson has had to defend the role of the NHS’s new “head of brand”
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NewsMandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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CommentMichael White: Sir David doesn't blink
The NHS chief executive sails on like Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick
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NewsMandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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NewsNHS chiefs ordered to explain £3bn underspend
The NHS’s leadership has been ordered by the health select committee to explain which pots of money the £3bn Department of Health underspend handed back to the Treasury came from.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chiefs warned to check celebrities' access to patients
All NHS hospitals have been told to review their approach to giving celebrities access to patients in light of the allegations about Jimmy Savile
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NewsNicholson: More funding will be linked to quality
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has revealed that more of providers’ income will be linked to quality and innovation next year.
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CommentCompetition: waiting for that green light
We need to move the debate on from whether or not competition actually works
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NewsNicholson fears 'carpet bombing' privatisation
A warning by the head of the NHS that the government’s controversial health reforms could end in “misery and failure” sparked fresh Labour calls for parts of the shake-up to be halted.
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NewsFlory: trusts still face April 2014 target for FT status
NHS Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory insists there has been “no change” to the policy of driving trusts through the foundation trust pipeline by April 2014.
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NewsSecond Nicholson challenge required says top Lib Dem
Former health minister Paul Burstow has called for a “Nicholson challenge two” review of future NHS and social care spending.
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NewsToo many 'risk pools' could force organisations into failure, Nicholson warns
The decentralising of financial control under the NHS reforms poses a risk that agencies could hold too much funding back from frontline care and force organisations “into failure”, Sir David Nicholson has warned.
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Blogs
How to be successful at interview
We were in a hotel bar the night before the interview, me, the three other shortlisted candidates and the recruitment consultant.
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CommentWhat that extra year for QIPP means
So, the Department of Health now claims 2008-09 as its year dot
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CommentMedia Watch: Sir David and his board
Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, declares his newspaper preference
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NewsNew tax rules 'could spark backlash'
New rules on employing interim managers in the NHS risk sparking a backlash from temporary managers who could look elsewhere for work, HSJ has been told.