All Service redesign articles – Page 174

  • News

    SHAs to review need for PCT top-slicing

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    NHS North West is the first strategic health authority to confirm that it will not top-slice money from primary care trusts this financial year.

  • News

    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'

  • Comment

    Michael White on YouTube politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'

  • Comment

    Michael White on the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach

  • Comment

    Michael White: the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • Comment

    Media Watch: 'NHS penpushers'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'NHS penpushers are paid £1.5m for doing nothing' the Daily Mail told its readers as the tabloids frothed earlier this week over news that the Department of Health is paying £1.5m to civil servants whose jobs have been made redundant.

  • Comment

    Michael White: media spin

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Judicial review looms on the consultation process and voters don't need media spin to feel cheated'