All Blogs articles – Page 30
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Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times
Rob Findlay and Anthony McKeever make the case for NHS trusts guaranteeing a one-year limit on referral to treatment waiting times.
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Macho macho management
Three quarters of the NHS workforce is female, half of GPs are women but commissioning is man’s work, according to workforce figures. Is this consciously unfair, or a simple by-product of the current climate?
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Dancing with the devil? Exorcism in the NHS
A blog about the revelation that the NHS uses exorcism as an alternative form of treatment for some mental health patients.
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A shocking indictment of corporate management culture
A documentary on Gatwick Airport produced an eyebrow-raising insight into private secotor management culture.
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Why can’t health and social care services get it together?
Everyone is talking about integration, but why haven’t we got it together yet?
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When the long-waiters are forgotten
When patients are forgotten on waiting lists, anything can happen. Sometimes comical errors, sometimes awful tragedies.
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The Short-Termism of Acquisition
The acquisition of ‘challenged’ trusts will offer a quick managerial fix but it won’t necessarily create strategically sustainable services and the operational problems that precipitated acquisition in the first place may well reoccur.
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In the drive for equality, culture eats strategy for breakfast
Even the best laid strategies sometimes fall short of achieving their goals. With an issue like equality, cultural changes are just as important as putting official plans in place.
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Latest RTT waiting times: August 2011
The NHS fended off its waiting time pressures in August, providing some much-needed breathing space as winter approaches.
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It's time to talk about values
The public sector’s values have become aligned in recent times to those of the private sector. It’s time to get back to what the public sector should stand for: doing the right thing.
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Is the public sector running out of ideas?
The changing role of chief executive’s requires a change in approach. But do the demands on management team leave them no room to manoeuvre?
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Lansley and Neil in the waiting times trap
Waiting times have come to mean the opposite of waiting lists, and this has turned public debate on the NHS upside down.
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The dilemma of appointing senior managers
Sir David Nicholson’s admission to the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry that in retrospect the previous chief executive was the wrong appointment highlights a common dilemma when appointing people at this level.
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Two days, 52 TFAs?
Two working days to go until the end of September and one of the trusts HSJ reported was too small to go it alone has announced its decision.
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PFI for an eye?
It is, of course, not for HSJ to speculate why a months old PFI story appeared so prominently in the quality press yesterday.
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Say no to 'yes' men and women
As the Liberal Democrat conference draws to a close, opposition ministers have again targeted Nick Clegg for reneging on party policies and ‘selling out’ in forming the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Can he ever be more than a “yes man”?
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Leaders lack confidence in the changes they've been asked to make
Transforming the public sector on the scale the government requires was always going to be difficult. The success looks more difficult still as the majority of leaders in the public sector have no confidence in the changes they’ve been asked to make.
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How long does it take to do 100 minutes' work?
There are 13,259 over-one-year waiters on the English waiting list. That’s only 100 minutes’ work for the NHS. Why not put an end to excessive waiting times once and for all?