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It's productivity, stupid

12 Mar 2007
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson reflects on the results of a survey by HSJ into what health care managers really think about government policy interventions.

Health service queues have been cut

12 Mar 2007
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson reviews the government's efforts to cut NHS waiting times.

Deficits and lower funding: the good news

15 Feb 2007
Niall Dickson
An article by Niall Dickson from The King's Fund's Insight magazine, arguing that the current financial pressures on the NHS could be more of an opportunity than a threat.

The 55 billion pound question

29 Jan 2007
John Appleby
Our Chief Economist John Appleby cuts up the 'NHS cake' to show where all the money has gone.

Niall Dickson on the future of the NHS workforce

18 Jan 2007
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson explains why workforce planning in health is a nightmare.

The reconfiguration of hospital services in England

16 Jan 2007
Jo Maybin
Jo Maybin says ministers face a struggle to win over sceptics about NHS reform.

Too much of a good thing

14 Nov 2006
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson argues that it is a 'foolish illusion' that we can completely take the politics out of running the NHS.

Jury still out on NHS independence

19 Oct 2006
Anna Dixon
Anna Dixon welcomes the debate around creating an independent NHS but says that an effective case has still to be made for full arm's-length governance.

A glimpse of a demand-side revolution

9 Aug 2006
Richard Lewis
An article by Richard Lewis arguing that the focus of the NHS reform agenda is now switching to commissioning, offering the possibility of real change.

Committed to the market?

5 Jun 2006
Niall Dickson
The King's Fund Insight article by Niall Dixon, which says that the health service in England is undergoing far-reaching change on a scale not seen before.

Attention deficit

31 Mar 2006
Niall Dickson
As we reach the end of the financial year, Niall Dickson warns there could be even more stories of deficits, wards being closed and staff being cut.

Let's face the future

30 Mar 2006
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson argues that there is now a glimmer of hope that care really can be transformed. But the details of the Wanless report and other recent studies show just how big and deep-rooted the current problems are.

Prescription for change

15 Mar 2006
Richard Lewis
Ministers are pinning their hopes on plans to put health care into the hands of staff and patients through social enterprises. A good idea – but it won't be easy, argues Richard Lewis.

Sir Nigel Crisp and the future of the NHS

14 Mar 2006
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson suggests the Crisp-Bacon legacy in the NHS may be viewed more favourably in a few years' time.

The NHS deficit problem has gone from bad to worse

14 Mar 2006
John Appleby
The NHS is doing its best to grapple with deficit, but the real pain of doing so will now be felt in the next financial year, argues John Appleby.

Shop 'til you drop

27 Oct 2005
Rebecca Rosen
It is the lynchpin of health policy for third-term Labour, but how much does the public understand about what choice offers? Rebecca Rosen reports on new research.

Effect of diverging policy across the NHS

21 Oct 2005
Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Jennifer Dixon, Gwyn Bevan, Nicholas Mays
Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Jennifer Dixon and colleagues look at the effect of diverging NHS policy since devolution in 1998.

Reforming the NHS in England

7 Oct 2005
Jennifer Dixon
Pressing issues must be resolved for the government's radical NHS reforms to succeed, argues Jennifer Dixon.

Impact of choice on hospital viability

3 May 2005
John Appleby
John Appleby looks at the impact of patient choice on the future viability of some hospitals.

Economic growth and NHS spending

6 Jan 2005
John Appleby
John Appleby looks at the pattern of spending on the NHS since the 1950s and considers what level of spending the UK economy could support over the next 50 years.

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