External contributors – Page 201
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CommentMichael White: driving down the cost of drug deals
The NHS should have little sympathy for Big Pharma.
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Comment'Clinical engagement cannot be considered too expensive now'
HSJ interviews Dr Richard Bohmer on the scale of challenge facing NHS organisations.
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CommentDavid Worskett: implementing reforms requires collaborative open minds
It’s time to discuss the practical business of healthcare.
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CommentReaders' letters – 10 May 2012
There’s no place for gags about the Samaritans. Plus, commissioners must not rule out telehealth yet
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CommentSally Gainsbury: new bailouts required for new deficits
One dastardly deficit decision and where it got us.
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CommentSue Slipman: there must be a line between management and regulation
The trouble with troubleshooters.
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Comment'The reforms could be the coalition's poll tax'
We will know by 2015 whether the public’s NHS experiences mean Andrew Lansley has pulled off this massive gamble, says Ipsos MORI’s chief executive Ben Page.
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CommentMichael White: power is there to be taken by the bold
Don’t assume CCGs know what their “assumed liberty” means.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the reinvestment riddle
Where is the process for reinvesting the Nicholson efficiency savings?
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CommentMedia Watch: 'carb up' to cope with surgery trauma, advises Keogh
Health policy in the media this week.
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CommentReaders' letters – 3 May 2012
Why revalidation should inform doctors’ professional development, and NHS 111 rollout fears
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Comment
Health charities can help rescue the innovation drive
The challenging QIPP targets NHS is aiming to achieve can be helped by the voluntary sector, argues Marie Curie Cancer Care chief executive Thomas Hughes-hallet.
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CommentUnemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
Public health work at one primary care trust has shown how unemployment could have massive impact on a generation’s life expectancy, and why it’s important they get back to work. John Middleton reports.
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CommentNorman Williams on driving change
The revolution in access to cardiac surgery that Devi Shetty has facilitated in India shows what is possible through clinical leadership.
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CommentAli Parsa on hospital process management
A major management challenge for hospital operators is the fact that hospitals are hybrid organisations.
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Comment'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'
Devi Shetty – nicknamed the Henry Ford of heart surgery – believes developments such as computerised diagnoses and technicians doing the work of highly trained medics are just around the corner. Ben Clover hears his ideas for the future of medicine.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: acute hospitals are living in Monitor's 'downside'
The regulator’s effciency savings target is worsening.
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CommentMichael White: the battle over waiting times is blurred by both sides
Headline-grabbing allegations are nothing a good figures massage can’t sort.
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CommentNigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
Does the Health Act leave Lansley powerless?
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CommentThe duty of communicating information to patients
Healthcare regulators need to communicate risks loud and clear.