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CommentMedia 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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CommentMichael 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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CommentKen 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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CommentDavid 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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CommentStephen 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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CommentCally 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.
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CommentMedia 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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CommentMichael 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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CommentDavid 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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CommentSheila Williams on watching your language
I have been thinking about language. May I invite you to leave the frenzy of the dance floor and come out onto the balcony?
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CommentNoel Plumridge on medicine’s gender balance
Supposing it were possible for an observer from 50 years ago to be miraculously teleported into one of today’s NHS hospitals - what would seem most different?
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CommentCarmel Gibbons on NHS leadership in the recession
Inspiring leaders required to steer NHS through tough times. Excellent opportunities for creative individuals. Others need not apply
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CommentPaul Corrigan on clinical leadership
Over the last couple of years we have all become used to the importance of clinical leadership for the development of the NHS. In fact in the management of a health service it’s really quite difficult to conceive of an argument against it.
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CommentMedia Watch: drugs debate
The sacking of senior government adviser David Nutt has resulted in the biggest media debate on illegal drugs for many months.
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CommentMichael White on health debates
Handy Andy Burnham, our youthful health secretary and Clark Kent lookalike, slipped out of Britain on Tuesday, heading west towards Washington - safely out of the row over home secretary Alan Johnson’s rash dismissal of David Nutt.
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CommentNicky Spencer on the pitfalls of email
Every magnificent technological advance in communications presents us with a double edged sword. The battle for the effective use of email is just beginning.
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CommentMichael White on unaccountable PCTs
Rare indeed is a Sunday night call by this column which yields a mention of primary care trusts and ancient Greek philosopher cum intellectual hard man Plato, virtually in the same breath.
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CommentAndy Burnham: embrace the new era of redesign to take NHS from good to great
Health secretary Andy Burnham explains the thinking behind his recent assertion that the NHS should be ‘our preferred provider’, setting it against a wider future of ‘re-engineered’ services - and a renewed sense of purpose among staff
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CommentPaul Corrigan: why Andy Burnham is wrong to rip up the NHS competition rulebook
Health secretary Andy Burnham’s rewriting of NHS competition rules undermines local decision making, conflicts with Labour’s manifesto and could breach competition law, argues Paul Corrigan. He claims commissioners should ignore it
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CommentYour Humble Servant: Andy Burnsley
‘Andrew Lansley on the other hand has a real problem. It’s the same one that Chris Smith and Frank Dobson had back in 1997. Like them, Andrew doesn’t have a health policy, because he is using his opponent’s one.’