The People Manager
Latest posts
The power of an HSJ blog
A trip to the health centre suggests local general practice staff have been reading my blog.
Challenge the myth of integrated care
Integrated care is not immune from the problems that affect the existing health and social care system.
The problem with superficial inspections
Some inspections of health and care providers are note much deepe than someone inspecting a second-hand car by going around and kicking the tyres.
Cut the Newspeak out of redundancy announcements
Managers and politicians should be upfront and clear when announcing bad news, not hiding behind jargon.
Could the 'Rooney rule' work in the public sector?
A look at how attitudes to race have changed in public sector recrutiment.
Not sleeping your way to the top
Separating fact from fiction about senior managers and their lives away from work
Senior management was ‘incompetent and reckless’
Blair McPherson on how we should judge managers
A rising management star crashes and burns
Are managers being given too much credit for success and too much blame for failure?
High-level anger management
There’s nothing wrong with managers being angry about poor care, but they still need to be in control.
The power of the political placebo
Are GPs prescribing placebos any more unethical than when politicians and managers talk about service closures?
If the shark doesn’t get you HR will
Managing an employee’s sick leave and return to work is never straightforward once you look into their individual circumstances.
Patients vs the business case
The NHS is not subject to local democratic accountability. If you want to have more say in what happens to your local hospital maybe you should advocate a transfer to local government
More blogs
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The DH's epic quest
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Little known FoI exemptions, from CSU Cassander
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Your 18 week waits: March 2013 data
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Sharp increase in English waiting list
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Startling openness from NHS England
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Big Brother is Monitoring you
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Worskett case scenario
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Seddon joins the Downing Street inner Circle
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The new NHS can transform mental health care
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A&E needs a sticking plaster as well as an overhaul
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The mystery of the missing waiting list patients
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Hunt performs first u-turn
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Politics and the English language
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Absurdism and the CSU project
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Your 18 week waits: February 2013 data
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The new culture of openness in action
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Wicked whispers
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One-year waits race towards zero
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My trusty little revenue raiser
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Virtual public relations
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NHS England's self fulfilling policy
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The Facebook metric
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More lessons from the banking sector
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Jeremy Hunt's first hand NHS experience
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Dogged display from Peedell poodle
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Nightmare on Harley Street
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Innovation in healthcare: ‘There’s a way to do it better – find it’
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Politics and satisfaction with the NHS
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After the transition, the anticlimax
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A picture is worth 1,000 hours of consultation
