Health: Consultant - Paul Fleming

Happy New Year!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

2010 promises to be an exciting year for the energy and utilities sector with a positive outlook for interim management. There are a range of factors that will drive change throughout this year and beyond and inevitably demand for interim managers will increase. With an estimated requirement for over £200bn worth of investment in the [...]

Labour’s Lost It

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The media are all over The Sun newspaper’s headline today, ‘Labour’s Lost it’.
 
The Sun, the biggest selling daily newspaper in the UK has made a major political switch away from Labour to back the Conservative party. It has done this the day after Gordon Browns call to arms speech at the Labour party conference [...]

NHS… A Model for USA?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

It has been interesting to observe in recent weeks how President Barack Obama’s plans to press ahead with reforming healthcare in the US has opened the debate of the merits of the NHS in the UK.
 
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan stoked the argument by attacking the NHS whilst being interviewed on US television by saying he [...]

NHS under the knife…..

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

It appears that the NHS like private organisations will pay for the banking sector’s profligacy with majorly reduced spending in future years.
 
NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson, was interviewed recently and stated that “all bets are off” as the health service prepares itself for impending spending cuts. He said, “We need to move away from [...]

The Diagnosis - Q1 Update

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

The interim market in the healthcare sector in the first quarter of this year has been particularly buoyant. I have seen a steady volume of work primarily in commissioning and project roles within newly created arms length providers.
The demand for specialist skills in marketing and business development seem to be increasing within our NHS clients. [...]

Health sector 2009

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Happy New Year to you all from the Healthcare Practice at Interim Partners and welcome to our new blog.
In 2008 we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the NHS and we were given a flavour of its future by Lord Darzi who presented his long awaited next stage review. In a nutshell, his aims are to [...]

Alistair Darling in his budget next March is expected to reduce public spending for 2010 – 11 by £5bn. How do you think the NHS could be affected?

Friday, December 5th, 2008