HSJ Bloggers
The NHS Change Agent
Helen Bevan is chief of service transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
The Leadership Consultant
Neil Goodwin is a director of GoodwinHannah and visiting professor of leadership studies at Manchester Business School.
NHS History Blog
Geoffrey Rivett is vice-chair of the governors of Homerton foundation trust and author of From Cradle to Grave: fifty years of the NHS.
The Pearl Catcher
Kate Hall is a general manager on secondment to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
The Harkness Fellows
Established by the Commonwealth Fund and co-funded by the Nuffield Trust, Harkness Fellowships allow professionals to research health policy in the US.
The Charity Chief
Charity chief Lynne Berry is transforming volunteering stalwart WRVS into an organisation that helps older people get the support they need.
Latest blog posts
Moving fowards
Management is often based on the response to yesterday’s questions and whilst some of the responses remain valid for the here and now a good many do not, they are out of date and little is achieved by walking backwards.
The water tower speech
On 9th March 1961 Enoch Powell, the Minister of Health, addressed the annual conference of the National Association of Mental Health.
There is now a pattern
The Department of Health is trying to silence the cooperation and competition panel, to stop health secretary Andy Burnham’s “preferred provider” policy being exposed as illegal.
Preferred provider – the saga continues
Preferred Provider - the saga continues
Shape up or ship out
I am not an ogre, I am not particularly harsh, I do not consider myself to be radical and I am not trying to be deliberately provocative but I do think that saying there will be no reduction in jobs is at best short sighted and at worst a lie.
The Moorgate Tube crash
On 28th February 1975, at 8.46 in the morning, a tube train failed to stop at Moorgate station and ploughed on into a brick wall, compacting the first three coaches into a tangle of metal.
One country, one surgeon
A tiny Caribbean nation is looking for healthcare insights from the UK
Cooperatives: easier said than done
The proposal to introduce staff cooperatives to run services will work only if government remains focused on the vision and principle, and does not become distracted by the discussion of the detailed consequences.
What does success look like?
Success doesn’t necessarily mean getting to the top. What is the top anyway? Top of what?
The money makers at the BMA
The BMA campaign Look After Our NHS is a highly distorted portrayal of the health service
