External contributors – Page 313
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Sophia Christie on lessons from Sweden
One of the most distinctive characteristics of NHS trusts' work with US company Kaiser Permanente is also one of the least commented upon. Kaiser Health Plan is an insurance company in an exclusive partnership with the Permanente Medical Group, run as a profit share company for the participating partner doctors.
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Come back, bowler brigade, all is forgiven
The Department of Health is the department the government wants - lean, responsive and focused. But is that what the health service needs? Scott Greer says the DoH should start answering back to government
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Michael White on politics
Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.
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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'
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Harry Cayton on better management
Good management should be invisible, but good managers should be highly visible, argues Harry Cayton
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Your Humble Servant: say hello to the new boss
'He is also an inspiration in separating bonuses from performance, exposing incompetent auditors who have overlooked some of his imaginative enterprises, and spending vast sums on management consultants.'
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HSJ debate: So you want to be a director?
HSJ 'Managers make a difference' Campaign: Whether it's the art of fostering effective relationships with clinicians, non-executives and politicians or demonstrating empathy with staff, what does the next generation of high-quality managers need? HSJ brought together six chief executives to provide some answers
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Barometer: acute trusts May 2006
The latest HSJ Barometer survey of acute trust chief executives showed significant recovery in confidence, with only two indicators displaying statistically relevant falls.