All Blogs articles – Page 27
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Are online patients empowered patients?
Liberating health data can stimulate innovation and get patients involved in their own health, according to one speaker at a US event. Pamela Garside blogs about whether this approach could take off in the UK as well.
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Devaluing social work with adults will cause huge problems
The NHS stands to lose big if local authorities begin cutting the number of social workers helping older patients and people with disabilities.
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The long view on long waits
A short history of waiting times: dramatic improvements under Labour, and a wobble followed by renewed improvement under the Coalition.
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Inspections can only hope to inspire managers into stopping abuse
Inspectors can’t realistically hope to “catch out” staff who abuse care home residents; it’s up to the managers to ensure their employees are all delivering good care.
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Waiting times: 'strong' or 'a huge embarrassment'?
Are waiting times up or down? It depends who you ask, but some answers are more meaningful than others.
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Your 18-week waits
18 week pressures fully analysed, by Trust and PCT, and by specialty: updated with February 2012 data.
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NHS consolidates its position on waiting times
The NHS consolidated its position on waiting times, following the first ever achievement of all three 18-week targets in January. The number waiting over a year improved slightly, but is still too high.
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How will doctors see fit to spend their budgets?
Doctors may have a few things on their wishlists now they are supposed to be in charge of commissioning services.
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On the road to Recovery
The government made Recovery the mental health strategy’s defining goal in February - which gives mental health service providers to do something truly radical, says Sean Duggan.
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Are we expecting too much of the CQC?
It has been open season on the Care Quality Commission for some time now.
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Waiting times soar as Scotland's backstop fails
Scotland “achieves the target” while its waiting times get worse.
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The introverted leader's time has come
Has the time at last arrived for the introverted leader in this brash, noisy and personality driven world? I think so. In these uncertain times we need leaders who can project calm reassurance rather than attempt to rouse us with fine oratory or hector us with their visions of what ...
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The local picture on waiting times
All the detail on 18 week waits: every specialty, every Trust, every PCT, all based on the latest (January 2012) data.
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Targets met, records broken: good news on waiting times
The English NHS broke records with a superb performance on 18-week waiting times in January.
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Yes, we do talk about you
My colleague on the senior management team seemed surprised - shocked, even: “Do you mean to say you talk about me and members of my team during your meetings?” as if this was slightly improper, unprofessional and indiscrete.
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'I've seen how innovation makes a difference from top to bottom'
Forcing through innovative service changes might be met with resistance, but it worked for London’s stroke services, as Pamela Garside can testify first hand.
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Motivation is needed to see clinical commissioning succeed
Many aspects of the Health and Social Care Bill have given rise to heated debate, but one of the most controversial has been the question of whether GPs should have formal statutory responsibility for commissioning.
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Collaboration with the private sector: a necessary evil?
These days, being the chief executive of a public sector organisation means collaborating with the private sector.
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The appeal of diversity - in theory
Embracing diversity in the workplace is now a common goal for every organisation. Achieving it is much trickier than the cosy theory behind it, however.
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Demystifying the I in QIPP
We regard innovation as a critical part of the QIPP equation for delivering NHS quality and cost improvement goals. Yet in NHS reports and in the wider academic literature, the term gets used in a thousand different ways, with different meanings. In this blog, I describe a framework ...