External contributors – Page 267
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Naomi Chambers on grumpy boards
With Lord Darzi's review of the NHS casting an uncertain light on the role of boards, some members might be forgiven for becoming tetchy, mistrustful, grumbling souls who always seem to be on the defensive
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Your Humble Servant on co-payments and co-operation
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: No-payment?
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Media Watch: teenage time bomb
The NHS is facing a 'teenage time bomb', several newspapers warned this week, based on statistics showing increased admissions of young people to hospital.
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Noel Plumridge on a family tragedy
When the mobile phone leaps into life before 8am, it's usually ominous. Yesterday was no exception, with a text from my sister Amy: 'Tony has been in a terrible accident and is fighting 4 his life. Everyone pls pray 4 him.'
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Michael White on the golden age of the NHS
I have been sitting in patchy sunshine reading Rejuvenate or Retire? the Nuffield Trust's anthology to mark the NHS 60th anniversary.
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Ginette Camps-Walsh on measuring patient satisfaction
Lord Darzi's next stage review sets out that the NHS will begin systematically measuring and publishing information about the quality of the care it provides. Measures will include patients' views on the success of their treatment and the quality of their experiences.
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David Levy on the changing face of clinical leadership
Clinical leadership is changing in response to Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, but the changes have not been uniform across the health community.
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Ken Jarrold on Darzi and nursing
While Lord Darzi's review of the NHS is to be warmly supported, it is astonishing that it contains almost no reference to nursing or to ward and team leaders.
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David Lee on integrating care
Two recent phone calls from different parts of the country got me thinking about what good management can do to make mental health and social care systems tick.
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Lisa Rodrigues on foundation trust tips
Well, we did it. Sussex Partnership foundation trust - a teaching trust of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School - was born on 1 August 2008.
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Andrea Sutcliffe on transforming the NHS
NHS 60 week was full of celebration of the past and, as Lord Darzi unveiled his plans for the next 10 years, full of promise for the future.
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Stephen Pearson on partnership working
At the NHS Confederation conference, a group of mainly NHS managers was asked whether anyone thought working with the private sector was a bad idea. That no-one put their hand up is an indication of how far the NHS has come on partnership working.
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Media Watch: overweight children
The issue of overweight children, always a popular topic, was widely reported this week.
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Michael White on pandemic flu
Did you clock the government's new national risk register, published by the Cabinet Office? It was widely reported as putting pandemic flu as potentially the most lethal threat mankind is facing.
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Jon Restell on keeping managers in the NHS
Sixty per cent of the people who will make up the NHS workforce in 10 years are already employed in the service. This is the latest fancy dan statistic to drop into any workforce discussion.
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Mark Johnson on outsourcing in the health sector
A recent report into the impact, scale and potential of the 'public services industry' - private companies and other organisations that provide services to the government - is very timely.
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Steve Feast on breaking through to leadership roles
Considering how many talented clinicians there are in the NHS leadership ranks, relatively few actually make the transition from local clinical leadership roles to senior system-wide or executive positions.
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Stephen Ramsden on minding your language
In a column last year I described the power of storytelling. Compelling stories touch hearts and minds in a way that logic and reason do not.
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Steve Onyett on loosening central control
The sociologist Lipsky coined the term 'street level bureaucracy' to highlight the fact that you can't force people to work effectively on something they disagree with.
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David Peat on hitting targets
You know how it feels when you hit the target but miss the point?Well, a recent journey to address a health conference in Europe was, to my mind, the perfect example of this.