All Leader articles – Page 32
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Clinical code-breaking jeopardises safety
The Audit Commission's exposure of a high error rate in clinical coding has an impact far beyond payment by results.
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Beleaguered NICE is powerless to call off postcode lottery
The NHS is caught in a media storm over access to drugs, with NICE at the centre.
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Patients have a right to know about mortality rates
The argument in the West Midlands over interpreting mortality rates is just a taste of the rows that will ensue once the Department of Health starts publishing outcomes data.
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Young promises new regime will deliver speed and independence
The language used by the chair of the Care Quality Commission in her interview with HSJ was typically clear, robust and ambitious.
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Carbon emmissions need central steering
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, it is difficult to conceive of an industry that faces a more complex challenge than the health service.
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Management must do more to ensure the NHS is free of racism
Apart from legal and moral obligations to its own staff, there is an even more powerful reason why the NHS needs to be sure it is free of discrimination.
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Workforce strategy should be driven by trusts, not regions
Among the wild cheering that accompanied most of Lord Darzi’s next stage review plans, there was a markedly more muted response to the workforce strategy.
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Venomous rhetoric blocks better services
The row in Cornwall over plans to move a cancer service out of the county encapsulates the struggles primary care trust managers face when trying to improve services.
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Mental health training shortage hits progress on safety
The Healthcare Commission's investigation into mental health inpatient services paints a troubling picture.
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Opening the door to clinical innovation
The medical world is looking to managers and surgeons to unlock the benefits of clinical innovation - and training is again the key.
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The size of the mountain PCTs must climb is becoming clear
With only a few months to go before primary care trusts have to submit their strategic plans, the scale of the world class commissioning challenge is becoming clear.
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Will you be in the Healthcare 100 club?
This week HSJ, with our sister title Nursing Times and NHS Employers, launches the Healthcare 100, which aims to identify the 100 best healthcare employers in the country.
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Join up - management is not the dark side
Today we launch a new section on hsj.co.uk dedicated to the needs of present and aspirant clinical leaders.
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Publish and be damned: death rates could improve outcomes
With quality now firmly established as the health service's new mantra, its measurement is the next step.
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Darzi review will be a success when it causes managers grief
Lord Darzi’s next stage review has been met with a remarkable degree of support. The few critics have failed to shoot any substantial holes in it.
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Door slams shut on targets and opens on a world of outcomes
In the corridors of health policy there is now an unseemly rush to be the first through the door marked 'outcomes'.
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Acute's leftovers won't feed public health
At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.
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BMA campaign trades on fear and ignorance
One has to admire the British Medical Association. Getting people to campaign against health service closures is easy, but it takes a particular talent to get the public to campaign against service openings.
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Sacking managers may attract headlines but won't fix problems
After 11 years of public service reform, the government's record is still dogged by poor performance. The failure regime unveiled last week shows ministers are running out of patience.
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Ambitious plan will require innovation
The evaluation by the Audit Commission and the Healthcare Commission of the progress of NHS reforms is a wake-up call for foundation trust managers.