All articles by Richard Vize – Page 8
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Time to get facts straight on NHS failure rates
Following HSJ's revelation last week that the Department of Health is projecting 2.1 per cent of trusts will fail each year for the next 20 years, we have been accused of misrepresenting policy.
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DH faces turmoil over tariff regime
Is there going to be tariff turmoil for the second time in three years?
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Lib Dems take a cheap shot at managers
Any public sector manager thinking of voting for the Liberal Democrats at the next election might wish to reconsider after the ill-judged rant by Treasury spokesman Vince Cable at the party conference.
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NHS centralism is in the small print
Buried within the 59 pages of brittle-dry prose of an ‘impact assessment’ on the failure regime for foundering trusts are extraordinary assumptions by the Department of Health about how many providers will go to the wall.
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No amount of health funding will be an antidote to poverty
As the political parties mobilise for the conference season it is tempting to believe there is broad consensus about the future of the NHS. But three debates that go to its heart are raging.
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Pick and mix accounting clouds surplus predictions
The NHS year-end surplus may not be quite as easy to predict as you might think.
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HSJ bloggers promise the insider's view
This week this website plunges into the blogosphere. Five readers are charting their highs and lows, frustrations and triumphs working in the health service.
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Trusts survey the wreckage as PFI hospitals begin to crumble
Arcane accountancy rules are in danger of costing the NHS control of some of its buildings. As HSJ reveals this week, the Treasury's decision to adopt new international accountancy standards is pushing trusts with private finance initiative debts to consider hiving off their estate to charities.
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Divide and rule: time for the UK to debate its four health systems
Among the oceans of data washing around the NHS, it is striking that government has avoided collecting one of the most illuminating sets of figures - comparisons between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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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.