The Pearl Catcher
The Pearl Catcher
The Pearl Catcher
Kate Hall is a Health Foundation Leadership Fellow and has specific interests in leadership and quality improvement.
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How a holistic approach to healthcare drives better value
Services are often fragmented across systems and even within organisations, causing waste. True value in healthcare, says Kate Hall, comes from smoothing patient pathways.
The buck stops with you
We have a tendency to blame politicians, other people and systems and processes when something is difficult to deliver or perhaps when we need a reason to resist change. The cynics amongst us might suggest that it is easy to object if you just don't really like what is being suggested. I've done it. Chances are you've done it.
Leading the line: how service line management can promote clinical excellence
Implementing service line management means recognising and promoting clinical leadership, says Monitor policy adviser Kate Hall.
The secret of the perfect leader
There are three rules for creating great leaders
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
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PMQs and the truth about waiting times
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Thinking differently about quality and cost
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The funding must be available to help achieve public health outcomes
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Are leaders a product of their environment, or is it the other way round?
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The local picture on waiting times
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Latest RTT waiting times data - November 2011
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Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
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The issue of heterosexual discrimination
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Profit and loss in the 'new' public sector
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Don't presume that racism is no longer a problem
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Abuse and negelect: what 2011 will be remembered for
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What will 2012 have in store for mental health?
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Will 2012 be the year of the accountable care organization?
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Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
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Disarray on waiting times targets
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New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps
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'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
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Latest waiting time stats: one year waits halved in October
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Learning from a model medical leader
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New target, new perversity
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Pointing the finger
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Just do it! (Subject to rules and regulations)
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Is community care, as we know it, dead?
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When is whistleblowing not whistleblowing?
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The strikes don't mean staff don't like doing their job
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How hard is the new 18 week target?
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Pensions propaganda?
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The pressing case for linking physical and mental health
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When customer care alone is not enough
