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What can civil rights leaders teach us about strategy for transformation?
Healthcare leaders can learn greatly from civil rights and anti-apartheid leaders who typically had few economic resources, yet were able to strategise to change their worlds and enable profound change
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Differences in waiting times in Scotland and England
England’s waiting time guarantees are more inclusive than Scotland’s. Why?
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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.
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BlogsHarkness Fellows: can payment reform improve public health?
Payment reform for healthcare delivery in the US could improve not only the service provided, but public health as well, writes Douglas Noble
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Supporting failure
The tendency to support failure: A common theme in the health service’s ritual hand wringing about why it fails to stimulate radical changes and new market entrants. It was one inevitably raised at the Healthcare Innovation Expo this week, the bonanza of idea exchanging - and product flogging - held ...
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Questionable aroma
Hearty End Game congratulations go to the team of volunteers who achieved a “professional relaxation qualification” via George Eliot Hospitals Trust.A graduation ceremony took place in February to recognise the team, who work on the trust’s Oasis Project, all of whom received an A grade in the diploma assessments.The project ...
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How will Monitor judge waiting times performance?
Monitor is out to consultation. My response explains why its approach to 18-week waits is perverse, and how to fix it.
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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
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Too many chiefs
At the excellent health policy wonkathon (TM: Dr Phil Hammond) that is the Nuffield Trust summit, talk turned to the impending arrival of a chief inspector of hospitals.As night follows day, the delegates then began debating what other areas of the service needed a chief inspector and which members of ...
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Double fantasy
End Game has come across a rather confusing account of subversive activity on the site of Lewisham Hospital.The hospital has been the subject of intense debate this year due to plans to downgrade its facilities to help solve financial troubles at neighbouring South London Healthcare Trust.Weirdly named local paper the ...
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How PR works
It feels like a long time since we had a horrendously opportunistic press release to marvel at.Maybe the public relations industry is getting the hang of judging the boundaries of taste, or perhaps we’re getting better at hitting “block sender”.Anyway, the drought is over. Within a couple of hours of ...
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Scotland's treatment time guarantee shows results
Scotland’s inpatient and daycase waits, which are subject to a legally binding target, improved. Outpatient waits, which aren’t, didn’t.
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A Shakespearian story at the top of the NHS
Sir David Nicholson will no doubt be wondering who his friends are and who he can trust as the press clamours for his resignation.
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BlogsInterim NHS managers can relate to Rafael Benitez
Senior NHS managers are now considered like football coaches, no one expects them to be around for very long.
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Little known FoI exemptions, from CSU Cassander
This is the latest installment in End Game’s occasional series, in which the ever-resourceful CSU Cassander identifies some little known exemptions to the pesky Freedom of Information Act.Section 66: Archives hauntedSection 71: Information eaten by catsSection 75: NHS will be privatised from 1 AprilSection 84: We’ve always been at war ...
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Tory press caught napping
A special End Game hat tip goes to Jayne Morris today, for causing a media ruckus with some harmlessly irrelevant workplace tips.Both the Daily Mail and theDaily Telegraph carried a story this morning referring to Ms Morris as an “NHS ‘life coach’”, and quoting her as saying workers should have ...
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BlogsIs the NHS safe in the hands of the Competition Commission?
The competition authorities must give due consideration to the interests of patients and taxpayers when considering NHS trust mergers.
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BlogsPassion runneth over in the job search
Employers have devalued passion as a word for describing how we feel about work.
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Howe's that
The latest summary of health ministers’ meetings and hospitality – covering July to September 2012 – emerged from the Richmond House fortress last week.