All articles by Blair McPherson – Page 13
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Hospital food is a recipe of contrary ingredients
When heart attack patients can tuck into a fry up the morning after a bypass, the health service needs to re-examine its position on hospital food.
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Taking action on workplace discrimination
Two prominent sports commentators persistently make sexist comments to colleagues and guests off air. Why didn’t someone do something?
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Explaining why candidates didn't get the job
“Why didn’t I get the job?” is a difficult question - but there’s an easy answer.
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Voluntary groups shouldn't take funding for granted
It is only natural when deciding which voluntary groups’ budgets to cut to go for the ones that have the least popular support.
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'You're going home': improving the interview process
Interview days are usually so boring, something should be done to shake up the process.
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There's something fishy about all this change...
Ambitious managers are like sharks. They need to keep moving or they die.
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We will let you know by the weekend...
How do you prolong the torture that is ‘the interview process’?
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Equipping managers for an uncertain future
After savage budget cuts public sector organisations will look very different.They will require a very different type of manager.
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'She looked like she was on a big ride at Alton Towers'
The hospital porter was pulling the wheelchair at speed from the x-ray department to the ward. The elderly patient was tipped back in the chair, gripping the arms tightly, her face frozen in fear all she could see was the ceiling lights flashing past.
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'Pensioner crime wave challenges public sector leaders'
Where life means life, in the USA, the problem of elderly prisoners has been around for a long time but it is a relatively new feature of British prisons.
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Low morale: does it really matter?
He had noticed the atmosphere in the office and knew that staff were unhappy.
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Can we still afford equality for women?
The CBI wants all companies to disclose their targets for promoting women and then report on their progress.
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The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is the name of the current Egyptian exhibition at the British museum. It would have made a good alternative title for Dr Foster’s hospital guide.
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'Is cost-cutting turning managers into bullies?'
Is the harsh financial climate in the public sector leading to a return to the bad old ways of “macho” management in the NHS?
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'Is the answer to have more black senior NHS managers?'
Why do so few people from ethnic minorities make it into the top jobs in the public sector?
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Businesspeople with medical degrees
One of the biggest ongoing changes in the transformation of the NHS is the role of the GP.
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In the boardroom: tough talks as reality sinks in
Now that the size and implications of public sector cuts are sinking in, senior managers and board members are realising that efficiency savings will not be anywhere near enough to cover it.