All Service redesign articles – Page 176

  • HSJ Knowledge

    What's quality?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With the emphasis on financial turnaround and the 18-week target, the primary focus of most organisations is finance and delivery. Patient experience and service quality do not seem to get the same attention. But does better-quality healthcare cost more money, or less?

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on powering reforms

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Power of two

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new bill will oblige councils and primary care trusts to work together. In a joint feature with Local Government Chronicle, Kaye McIntosh asks how it will work in practice

  • News

    Speak out

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Choice is more complicated for cancer care than for a single surgical operation'

  • Comment

    Speak out

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The IPPR's Joe Farrington-Douglas says private companies may be able to give valuable support to commissioners - but decisions about who gets what healthcare must remain public and accountable

  • 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 ...