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Senior management was ‘incompetent and reckless’
Blair McPherson on how we should judge managers
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BlogsPolitics and satisfaction with the NHS
To say the NHS is political is to state the obvious. But are the public’s views about the NHS shaped by, or linked to, identification with political parties?
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After the transition, the anticlimax
The transition is complete – primary care trusts and strategic health authorities are dead, making way for a clinically led insurgency that will sweep through the NHS like a wildfire of transparency, patient-centredness and integrated working.So get ready! Or, if you live in Wigan, don’t.The town’s new commissioning group tweeted ...
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A picture is worth 1,000 hours of consultation
End Game is fully supportive of the creative arts, and loves it when complex health policy is expressed in simple, visually appealing forms.So in theory we full approve of the whimsical cartoons that the Healthier Together reconfiguration programme’s Twitter account uses for its background.The programme is reviewing hospital services across ...
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BlogsNick Clegg or Nigel Farage: who should NHS leaders model themselves on?
NHS leaders need to decide whether to focus on what is in the best interests of their organisations, or be willing to share sovereignty and work with others.
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NHS England's Twitter handle tangle
Jubilation rang out from Quarry House in the week before Easter as the government announced (curiously, in its response to the Francis report), that the NHS Commissioning Board would be allowed to drop its yawn-inducing title and be known henceforth as NHS England.Those running the self-described “biggest quango in the ...
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BlogsThe English waiting list: not growing after all?
After adjusting for counting changes, it turns out the English waiting list might not be growing after all.
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A rising management star crashes and burns
Are managers being given too much credit for success and too much blame for failure?
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Hunt, health and airlines – half right and half wrong?
We need a culture where staff feel empowered to act to mitigate risk and prevent avoidable harm without fear of recrimination and blame. It is time for a much more sophisticated debate, says Chris Hopson.
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Resources for transformation are abundant, even in an era of austerity
Social movement leaders typically don’t have the economic resources of conventional leaders so they have to grow their own
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Health policy for young people
The long standing complaint that the central management of the NHS is no good at talking to ordinary people can finally be banished forever, End Game is thrilled to report.Someone has invented a learning tool that turns civil servant speak into young person speak.You type a web address into www.gizoogle.net ...
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High-level anger management
There’s nothing wrong with managers being angry about poor care, but they still need to be in control.
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What do NHS managers do?
An article on the BBC news site this weekend asked, “What does a pope do?” The same could apply to NHS managers, says Neil Goodwin.
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The power of the political placebo
Are GPs prescribing placebos any more unethical than when politicians and managers talk about service closures?
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Tee tweets cockadoodledoo
It is a little known fact about Matt Tee – the NHS Confederation’s soon to be chief operating officer – that he was once interviewed by David Frost as a child.Mr Tee, the former all-sorts-of-things in and around the NHS and current boss of something called “Reputate”, took to Twitter ...
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Your 18 week waits: January 2013 data
Interactive maps showing the local picture on waiting times, with click-through to detailed reports. Fully updated with the latest data for January 2013.
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Waiting list 'gap' is growing
One-year-waits improved, 18-week-waits are steady, the total waiting list is looking ever larger for the time of year.
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Dr Dan's achievement map
Since a disastrous appearance at Unite’s health visitor conference and THAT flu jab photo back in November, things have been pretty quiet from junior health minster Dan Poulter.Aside from continuing to practice part time as a medical doctor, health policy fans might be wondering what the MP for Central Suffolk ...
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Pestilence and the art of public relations
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust’s public relations people got in touch today to inform us that the trust “takes the issue of pest control very seriously”. Fantastic! Because so many other trusts treat pestilence as a great big giggle.“Any large organisation, including hospitals, will experience infestations on occasions, and, ...
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BlogsWhy you should reframe your strategy as transformational
Leaders need to combine coercion with a sense of shared purpose to bring about real change in their organisations