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Increased activity may put bright future at risk
While health service investment has soared, the pressure on organisations to secure financial control may be driving down productivity. Peter Smith unravels the paradox
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Noel Pumridge on workforce planning
Or, in simple terms, why should the NHS pay a nurse in Workington almost as much as a nurse in Wimbledon? She'll only fritter it away anyway.
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How doctors learned to stop worrying and love data
The NHS has never lacked information, but, says Dr Foster Intelligence's Tim Kelsey, only now are managers and clinicians harnessing its power to change services. Public access is the next big challenge
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Barometer: PCTs January 2007
The latest Barometer survey of primary care trust chief executives showed growing confidence in negotiating power with acute providers, with the indicator score up again to 6.88 out of 10.
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PBR versus payment for performance
Mike Farrar ('PbR to become 'payment for performance' in NHS North West', HSJ 1 February) is right - there is no reason why pay for performance (P4P) can't be introduced into the NHS.
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Public health Barometer, February 2007
The single biggest rise in confidence in the latest Barometer survey of public health directors was for the access target on sexual health services, the overall number up from 6.08 out of 10 to 7.09. At the other end of the scale, optimism on the 2010 childhood obesity target has ...
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Healthcare inspection comes under scrutiny of its own
'Numbers do not impart wisdom in themselves, you have to learn how to select and use them'
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NHS managers have a key role in local politics
'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'
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Michael White on politics
'It would have taken a chainsaw to separate Ms Hewitt from the job, despite everything'
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Simon Stevens on happiness and health
'Six factors apparently explain 80 per cent of the variation in happiness... Not all of these can be tackled by a typical primary care trust.'
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Silence can mean fear, not support
'One can understand why anxiety, uncertainty and fear rule'
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Mike White on the Lords
'You cannot expect a nurse to handle 50 staff and a £1.5m budget without training'
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Noel Plumridge on finance
'I couldn't resist it: 'Have you thought of taking up golf?' I quipped'
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Christopher Newdick on treatment abroad and the law
Should PCTs be alarmed by the European Court of Justice's ruling on covering the cost of treatment abroad? Christopher Newdick explains
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Data briefing: Scottish tariffs
Following publication last year of Professor David Kerr?s Building a Health Service Fit for the Future, a Wanless-style review of Scottish health services, the NHS in Scotland is now implementing Delivering for Health reforms, which includes a new system of paying hospitals.
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Hilary Thomas on living with cancer
Becoming a patient has been a salutary, levelling experience
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London bombs: team NHS deserves better on comms
'Adversity fuels learning faster than most other things'
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Media Watch
Flinging a 'small morsel of red meat' to the pack would only make them salivate even harder for more
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Michael White on politics
'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'