External contributors – Page 309
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Bed day costs
The Department of Health productivity indicators (click herefor story) detail how much each trust can save by reducing bed stay.
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Learning disability and language
Letters from Sam Smith, executive director, C-Change for Inclusion, Glasgow; Val Rowlands, superintendent physiotherapist, Stockport Learning Disability Service; and Rod Campbell, director of communication and development, The Regard Partnership, Kingston-upon-Thames
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Service link economics
Can Monitor chair Bill Moyes and KPMG consultant Kate Barber explain what is new about the 'The new economics' and justify the statement: 'Treating individual services as profit and loss units promises to transform financial management and clinical engagement' ( HSJ, 16 November 2006)?
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In a challenging year, our success is yours
Tonight, HSJis hosting its biggest-ever awards ceremony - this year we received more than 900 entries across 18 categories and more than 1,000 people will attend our prize-giving event in central London. In this, the Awards' 25th anniversary year, the success of the event is a ...
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Manchester inequalities missing
Letter from David Regan, director, Manchester Joint Health Unit
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Neil Goodwin on Serbian princes and American cousins
'Mixing with Europeans always reminds me how European we are in the UK and how much less we have in common with the USA'
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Feedback to 'A formula for unfairness'
I read with interest the article in your 16 thNovember edition ' A formula for unfairness'. It confirms the views that many of us have had that there is something wrong with the grant distribution formula used by Government.
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Return to the windmill - behavioural modelling and the future
The lack of a 'big picture' of where reforms will take us means investment and strategic planning are severely hampered. Alasdair Liddell and Laurie McMahon describe a behavioural modelling approach that can help
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Power to close NHS organisations gives super-regulator super-teeth
A long delay can create its own sense of drama - such is the case with the regulatory review which has been promised for the best part of a year and gone through various drafts (including a complete overhaul by McKinsey). In the event, the result published this week makes ...
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Janet Askham on the need to improve patient feedback
'If we continue to ask patients to give up their time to provide valuable feedback on their doctor's performance, surely we owe it to them at least to ask the right questions?'
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Six of the best on health inequalities
Despite its presence on the so-called Selbie Six list of NHS priorities for 2006-07, tackling health inequalities is proving a significant challenge for many primary care trusts.
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Service link economics
Letter from Angie Jezard, senior consultant, AJ Financial and Strategic Healthcare
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Data protection
'The DoH said... that data processing agreements were being put in place to comply with the Data Protection Act'. (Click herefor story.) Agreements with whom?
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Public health
Professor David Hunter's piece was an excellent, balanced article with a clear conclusion. I couldn't agree more on the need for a moratorium on organisational reform and its negative impact on public health, particularly public mental health.
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Listening to complaints
David Lee's article on listening to complaints was engaging. What would have been really useful is a sense of what has actually changed in the day-to-day operation of services and the impact on patient care, efficiency and staff relations.
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Funding formula
I am delighted that you reported calls to scrap the NHS funding formula on the evidence given to the health select committee by Professors Asthana, Stone and McCormick.
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Back to the wards
A selection of reader responses about our story on senior nurses going 'back to the wards' to save trusts money
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Andrew Jones on conspiracy or cock-up
'It could be kindly argued that, by general lack of enthusiasm, a third of the country is yet to churn out any meaningful health activity data, yet alone customise or dynamise it to specific local goals. Perhaps more telling is that two-thirds have yet to even put together a simple ...
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Dianne Leyland on the lack of clarity over local involvement networks
Voluntary and community groups must be actively involved if LINks are to work. Yet the sectors' goodwill, undermined by the botched creation of patient forums, is eroding further.