Health Service Journal
Cally Bann
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Cally Bann: putting the record straight
10 November 2011
It is only fair that a victim of misinterpretation and misrepresentation gets to clarify their comments. -
Cally Bann: is the healthcare landscape a thriller, a tragedy or a farce?
25 August 2011
So as the summer breezes blows through the ever-greying tresses of the post-pause ministerial locks, what does the landscape around us foretell ofthe autumn and winter to come? -
Cally Bann: the Big Society's 'Big Listen'
21-Apr-2011
I have my doubts whether this period of political deflection, that is, reflection, will bring changes of any substance to the NHS reforms. -
Cally Bann: is life imitating art in La La land?
24-Mar-2011
La La’s Teletubby house has many potential uses: as long as they remain over the hills and far far away. -
Cally Bann
3-Mar-2011
Never have so many said so much about so little for so long. -
Cally Bann
17 February 2011
Who’d have thought Lansley would bring the system together as one? -
'Management conspiracy requires management intelligence, and I'm not talking data'
13 January 2011
So as we enter 2011, chief operating officer Lansley continues to command the full support of the board and old-Etonian co-owners Cameron and Letwin, a level of support comparable to that enjoyed by a Hodgson-Grant-Ancelotti-Houllier hydra. -
Cally Bann
9 December 2010
Hub and spoke? -
'All a bit anodyne these days, what with partnership this and partnership that'
7 October 2010
Lansley the Leveller should be saying his prayers, according to the joshing banter and bonhomie around our Joint Consultative Committee table. -
Cally Bann: the white paper
5 August 2010
So the end of term madness has fully descended, with fuel added to the annual pre-vacation fire by the wind of change blowing from the bottom of the white paper. -
Cally Bann: GPs are the masters of our destiny
15 July 2010
Now we know. GPs are the masters of our destiny, but not until they are ready, which is sometime between lunchtime tomorrow and 2017. So, best not let the grass grow. Time to get the GP preparedness plan out the drawer. -
Cally Bann: 'Remember it’s not over until the fat vuvuzela’s blown'
24 June 2010
Yes, I want to win the bid to run the community health services. I know there are a few more stages to go. And I know we looked good on paper, and thought that we’d taken our best team to the pitch. And yes, I know the one about the best-laid plans of mice and men. -
Cally Bann: Volunteers and Friends
3 June 2010
So they’ve debated, they’ve negotiated, they’ve coalesced and they’ve agreed. -
Cally Bann: it's going to be crap and we're all in it together
20 May 2010
So now we know. From the bellowing pomposity at High and Mighty Hall, through the bemused gentlefolk of Meek and Mild Manor to the elitist piety at Pool and Field Palace our glorious NHS has spoken: it’s going to be crap and we’re all in it together. -
Cally Bann: NHS manager bashing
22 April 2010
Will I be glad when it’s all over… Letting it be known that you’re the chief executive of the local hospital has always had the proclivity to silence the most genteel of dinner parties, or to quell the cacophony at the most boisterous of pubs. -
Cally Bann: the election
1-Apr-2010
So it’s looking like 6 May, with purdah not falling a second too soon. -
Cally Bann: SHA Winter Olympic Cover Your Back Executive Director Pentathlon
11 March 2010
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is… all learning how to ski and snowboard if our emergency department activity is anything to go by. Throw in the removal of the winter covers from the back-garden trampolines and collective amnesia about putting the safety netting back up and it’s hardly surprising the 98 per cent target took a pounding last week. -
Cally Bann: funding gap
18 February 2010
Call me old fashioned, but if you ask me, the difference between 240 and 260 is 20. Which is what I call a gap. -
Cally Bann: public health nightmare
28 January 2010
Not long to go until February, thank God. The tension created by the last flicks of those New Year resolution scorpion tails is intolerable. -
Cally Bann: bah humbug
7 January 2010
Now I’m no Scrooge, and the words bah and humbug have never once crossed my lips, if you ignore that time in 1986 when I got caught under the A&E mistletoe by a lothario of the Superbrew. But - looking back in the cold light of January - never again will we combine a Secret Santa buffet dinner with a quiz night and karaoke. And I don’t care about the £2,000 we raised for charity. -
Cally Bann: the 'finance committee'
3 December 2009
Some may call it the finance committee. I call it a three hour filibuster on how to avoid being named and shamed by Spiky Mikey O’Brien, with perhaps 10 minutes on our plans to take 7 per cent out of the cost base. -
Cally Bann: Halloween and bonfire night bash
12 November 2009
Running a hospital? Meat and drink. Organising the annual staff Halloween meets bonfire night? Don’t even go there. -
Cally Bann: NHS car parking
22 October 2009
Ten years at the helm and not a single complaint about car parking. Until the Boy Burnham sticks his nose in, that is. -
Cally Bann: no beating an annual general meeting
1 October 2009
You can’t beat a good annual general meeting, can you? Well maybe you can, with just about anything: walking on glass, needles under the fingernails, back to back episodes of Big Brother, a detailed discussion on the board assurance framework… -
Cally Bann: psychopathic managers
10 September 2009
September: everyone’s favourite board. Papers the weight of a Nigella compendium but without the taste, tease or titillation. Unless you get your rocks off on the compliance return, the assurance framework, the risk register or the update on the implementation of the HR strategy 2007-11. -
Cally Bann on sporting achievement
30 July 2009
OK, so the meeting to square off the ward upgrade plan, the summer theatre closure plan, the length of stay plan, the day case rate improvement plan, the 18-week plan, the demand management plan, the winter planning plan, the income plan and the 7.5 per cent cost improvement plan was not as well organised as it arguably could have been. -
Cally Bann on the vagaries of leadership
18 June 2009
It should be the best week of the year, what with Sir Seymour still away at his annual shoulder rub with the hoi polloi at the Chelsea Flower Show and the whole of the SHA away for a snuffle in the trough at Liverpool. -
Cally Bann on fiddling expenses
28 May 2009
A spotty-faced cub reporter at the Battersley Evening Bugle has put in a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a detailed breakdown of all board expenses claimed in the past 24 months. -
Cally Bann on the swine flu outbreak
7 May 2009
An acute trust chief executive, “Cally Bann”, casts a jaundiced eye over the swine flu outbreak…
