Health Service Journal
Blogs
Stories with this category.
-
Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in today’s NHS?
21-Jan-2013
-
NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
17-Jan-2013
-
Leadership lessons from the Thin White Duke
14-Jan-2013
-
One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
14-Jan-2013
-
Lessons from Boston on integrated care
9-Jan-2013
-
More management, less leadership please
7-Jan-2013
-
Military-style leadership doesn't suit the public sector
7-Jan-2013
-
The prospects for health and social care in 2013
4-Jan-2013
-
A new look for NHS leaders in 2013
2-Jan-2013
-
Why the public sector shouldn't use head hunters
28-Dec-2012
-
A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
17-Dec-2012
-
Your 18 week waits: October 2012 data
14-Dec-2012
-
Orthopaedics scrapes inside waiting target for first time
13-Dec-2012
-
Acquisitions are not just a business process
10-Dec-2012
-
The drama of being a whistleblower
6-Dec-2012
-
Concern that black staff are more likely to be disciplined
4-Dec-2012
-
Scotland's waiting times slide again
28-Nov-2012
-
Developing integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
21-Nov-2012
-
Your 18 week waits: September 2012 data
21-Nov-2012
-
What's so hard about saying sorry?
21-Nov-2012
-
Transforming real waiting lists with better scheduling
16-Nov-2012
-
New record best for one-year-waiters (now let's go for zero)
16-Nov-2012
-
Protecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?
15-Nov-2012
-
The mandate provides a historic opportunity for better mental healthcare
13-Nov-2012
-
Trust chief executives have one of toughest jobs there is
13-Nov-2012
-
Stairlifts on cell block H: who cares for older prisoners?
12-Nov-2012
-
Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
7-Nov-2012
-
Healthcare in the US election: fact, fiction and Big Bird
31-Oct-2012
-
Winterbourne View was shocking but hardly surprising
31-Oct-2012
-
First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
19-Oct-2012
-
Winter pressures, week by week
19-Oct-2012
-
The blip is over: waiting times break new records
19-Oct-2012
-
Harassment has not gone away
19-Oct-2012
-
The shocking truth about anonymous comments
12-Oct-2012
-
Culture is as intangible as the air we breathe
8-Oct-2012
-
NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
4-Oct-2012
-
Equal opportunities under the new CCGs
2-Oct-2012
-
Stampede for the exit
26-Sep-2012
-
Did she jump or was she pushed?
19-Sep-2012
-
How to be successful at interview
11-Sep-2012
-
Un-learning leadership in the NHS
4-Sep-2012
-
No U in team
28-Aug-2012
-
Improving the health of the poorest, fastest: why clusters of lifestyle behaviours matter
23-Aug-2012
-
Do extroverts perform better at interview or do they just think they do?
13-Aug-2012
-
50 Shades of management
9-Aug-2012
-
Candy coated cartels, fear and loathing - is there a better way forward?
9-Aug-2012
-
Genuine 'co-production' now needs 'coming together'
26-Jul-2012
-
Is trust really the be all and end all of leading?
20-Jul-2012
-
18-week waits still improving
20-Jul-2012
-
Will new waiting time records be broken?
17-Jul-2012
-
A mandate for bad waiting list management
9-Jul-2012
-
Accountable care organisations: revolution or business as usual?
9-Jul-2012
-
Wider lessons from Imperial's long waits
9-Jul-2012
-
Securing equal mental health investment is still a big task
21-Jun-2012
-
Focus on waiting list still delivering success
21-Jun-2012
-
Who cares what they think?
12-Jun-2012
-
Lessons for the care industry from the car industry
11-Jun-2012
-
Are we wasting money on care that patients don’t want?
7-Jun-2012
-
Hiring and firing at will
4-Jun-2012
-
Change management, and changing definitions
29-May-2012
-
Engagement matters - here's why
28-May-2012
-
Playing to the whistle?
28-May-2012
-
Integrated care and why the NHS needs more deviant leaders
21-May-2012
-
The fall of the Roman Empire
18-May-2012
-
Commissioning board must safeguard the future of secure care services
14-May-2012
-
Holding a mirror up to the managers
14-May-2012
-
Clinician involvement is key - but keep an eye on the cost
8-May-2012
-
Devaluing social work with adults will cause huge problems
30-Apr-2012
-
The long view on long waits
30-Apr-2012
-
Inspections can only hope to inspire managers into stopping abuse
27-Apr-2012
-
Your 18-week waits
20-Apr-2012
-
How will doctors see fit to spend their budgets?
16-Apr-2012
-
Targets met, records broken: good news on waiting times
15-Mar-2012
-
Yes, we do talk about you
13-Mar-2012
-
'I've seen how innovation makes a difference from top to bottom'
12-Mar-2012
-
Motivation is needed to see clinical commissioning succeed
6-Mar-2012
-
Collaboration with the private sector: a necessary evil?
4-Mar-2012
-
Integrating mental health and substance misuse services
2-Mar-2012
-
The appeal of diversity - in theory
29-Feb-2012
-
In NHS board games, no one is safe
24-Feb-2012
-
Toynbee exposes the waiting list cheats
22-Feb-2012
-
December's waiting times data - the local picture
17-Feb-2012
-
Is there an I in success? Busting the team building myth
17-Feb-2012
-
Latest on 18 week waits: better in December
16-Feb-2012
-
Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
15-Feb-2012
-
Imperial's waiting times holiday
14-Feb-2012
-
Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
9-Feb-2012
-
PMQs and the truth about waiting times
8-Feb-2012
-
Are managers too busy to manage?
6-Feb-2012
-
Are leaders a product of their environment, or is it the other way round?
25-Jan-2012
-
The local picture on waiting times
23-Jan-2012
-
Latest RTT waiting times data - November 2011
19-Jan-2012
-
Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
17-Jan-2012
-
The issue of heterosexual discrimination
17-Jan-2012
-
Profit and loss in the 'new' public sector
17-Jan-2012
-
Don't presume that racism is no longer a problem
10-Jan-2012
-
Abuse and negelect: what 2011 will be remembered for
9-Jan-2012
-
What will 2012 have in store for mental health?
6-Jan-2012
-
Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
3-Jan-2012
-
Disarray on waiting times targets
24-Dec-2011
-
New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps
19-Dec-2011
-
'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
16-Dec-2011
-
Latest waiting time stats: one year waits halved in October
15-Dec-2011
-
Learning from a model medical leader
13-Dec-2011
-
Pointing the finger
8-Dec-2011
-
Just do it! (Subject to rules and regulations)
7-Dec-2011
-
Is community care, as we know it, dead?
6-Dec-2011
-
When is whistleblowing not whistleblowing?
5-Dec-2011
-
The strikes don't mean staff don't like doing their job
2-Dec-2011
-
How hard is the new 18 week target?
28-Nov-2011
-
The pressing case for linking physical and mental health
22-Nov-2011
-
When customer care alone is not enough
21-Nov-2011
-
If the NHS is doing well, why is it changing?
18-Nov-2011
-
Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times
17-Nov-2011
-
Macho macho management
10-Nov-2011
-
Dancing with the devil? Exorcism in the NHS
2-Nov-2011
-
A shocking indictment of corporate management culture
1-Nov-2011
-
Why can’t health and social care services get it together?
31-Oct-2011
-
When the long-waiters are forgotten
26-Oct-2011
-
In the drive for equality, culture eats strategy for breakfast
21-Oct-2011
-
It's time to talk about values
13-Oct-2011
-
Is the public sector running out of ideas?
6-Oct-2011
-
Two days, 52 TFAs?
29-Sep-2011
-
Say no to 'yes' men and women
22-Sep-2011
-
Leaders lack confidence in the changes they've been asked to make
10-Sep-2011
-
How long does it take to do 100 minutes' work?
8-Sep-2011
-
Creating diversion will improve mental health screening throughout the judicial system
2-Sep-2011
-
Don't make me think...
1-Sep-2011
-
The upside-down reporting of NHS waiting times
23-Aug-2011
-
Leadership: not as dangerous as some might make out
21-Aug-2011
-
Waiting times steady in June
19-Aug-2011
-
If bullying doesn't bother staff, why are so many absent?
18-Aug-2011
-
Trying to force equality in leadership is an unbalanced approach
11-Aug-2011
-
Survival of the fittest: will social enterprises thrive in the new world?
8-Aug-2011
-
What happens when pleasing the boss goes too far?
5-Aug-2011
-
The trouble with PTLs
2-Aug-2011
-
Changing behaviour needs more than a 'nudge'
25-Jul-2011
-
Pressure? Andrew 'Chopper' Lansley isn't feeling it
21-Jul-2011
-
Is your organisation accepting the unacceptable? Challenging 'ethical fading'
21-Jul-2011
-
Your flight has been cancelled (by your employer)
18-Jul-2011
-
'Beyond samosas and reggae' - or, developing services with equal opportunities
7-Jul-2011
-
DH sweeps long-waits under the carpet
7-Jul-2011
-
Nuffield Trust website relaunches
7-Jul-2011
-
The great care divide
4-Jul-2011
-
Will the bill halt the integration of vital services outside health and social care?
30-Jun-2011
-
Why you should keep the 'smiling assassins' in HR on your side
30-Jun-2011
-
Is enthusiasm the key skill to look for in public sector recruitment?
13-Jun-2011
-
What happens when chief executives are slow to pick up on patient complaints?
10-Jun-2011
-
The sky's the limit for airport-style health services
10-Jun-2011
-
Can local authorities step up as good providers of care?
9-Jun-2011
-
Senior managers need to get 'hands on' with customers
8-Jun-2011
-
Life after senior management: it's not over for the over 50s
6-Jun-2011
-
The end of the start for personalisation in adult social care?
4-Jun-2011
-
Emergency at 170ft
3-Jun-2011
-
NHS chief executive PA recognised in annual awards
2-Jun-2011
-
Wales waits and waits
31-May-2011
-
Pointing the finger of blame for A&E delays
27-May-2011
-
The never asked question: 'What if I am wrong?'
27-May-2011
-
Collective failures can hinder social care
26-May-2011
-
Undermanaged NHS needs step change in appointment process
24-May-2011
-
Polyoaks - can Radio 4 out-absurd the current reforms?
23-May-2011
-
The culture shift required to achieve equality in the workplace
22-May-2011
-
The powers of the dynamic duo
19-May-2011
-
Is the betting off for Lansley's vision?
17-May-2011
-
The benefits of employment support to mental health patients
16-May-2011
-
National recognition for NHS individual - for the right reasons
10-May-2011
-
Fast, cheap and intimidating - the future of NHS services?
9-May-2011
-
A right royal day to bury bad news
4-May-2011
-
Inadvertent integration?
3-May-2011
-
Making time for successful management development
3-May-2011
-
Ensuring security for secure mental health services
21-Apr-2011
-
The casualties of workplace conflict aren't just the staff
21-Apr-2011
-
Graduates need more than a degree from the university of life
20-Apr-2011
-
Getting the message across
20-Apr-2011
-
Stuck in the middle
18-Apr-2011
-
Achieving high quality care at manageable costs: a lesson for GP consortia
15-Apr-2011
-
Learning the management lingo
7-Apr-2011
-
When looking the part goes too far
1-Apr-2011
-
Sometimes the best thing to happen to a candidate is not getting the job
28-Mar-2011
-
The People Manager
25-Aug-2010
-
'The hospice movement was prepared to look death squarely in the face'
28-Jun-2010
-
Does my daughter have swine flu?
7-Jul-2009
