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Is the betting off for Lansley's vision?
David Cameron’s speech yesterday did little more than reaffirm the government’s commitment to pushing on with NHS reform. But will the prime minister show as much support to his beleaguered health secretary Andrew Lansley?
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The benefits of employment support to mental health patients
The change in the way people with mental health problems are supported into work highlights just how vital it is for NHS organisations to be focused on employment as an outcome.
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Many measures of waiting times
Bewildered by the vast pick-and-mix of different waiting time measures? Here’s a fact checker that has them all.
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The lost opportunity to review management
While the listening panel goes about its business and Number 10 takes a closer interest in the NHS, a golden opportunity to realign NHS management has been missed. Wouldn’t it be good if management requirements anticipated the future rather than reacted to the present?
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Cut waiting times, breach the target
How government targets deter hospitals from cutting waiting times, and how they could change for the better.
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National recognition for NHS individual - for the right reasons
Not that many people in the NHS have gained national recognition this year for positive reasons.
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Fast, cheap and intimidating - the future of NHS services?
Why the future of our public services is like a New York breakfast.
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Self Coaching - is it possible?
Exploring the value of self coaching and whether it is a substitute for one to one coaching, and the support of a coaching style of management
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A right royal day to bury bad news
Of all days, the biggest royal wedding for 30 years must have seemed a ripe moment during which to sweep bad news under the carpet.
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Inadvertent integration?
Recent reports from the US and UK suggest primary care and hospitals merging on both sides of the Atlantic. But are we missing these opportunities to understand truly integrated care in the NHS?
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Making time for successful management development
Management development programmes have a vital part to play in achieving powerful organisational change - but only if they can be delivered properly, to the right people.
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The government shouldn't cut public health loose just yet
A government’s role in public health campaigns is not only necessary, it is desired and it works, according to speakers at the World Social Marketing conference in Dublin.
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Ensuring security for secure mental health services
Nowhere is it more important to look critically at what we are spending now and finding ways of using money more wisely than in secure mental health services, writes Sean Duggan.
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The casualties of workplace conflict aren't just the staff
Anxiety over the reforms is heightening conflict in the workplace, and that conflict is threatening to spill over into the quality of care.
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Graduates need more than a degree from the university of life
Why linking up practices and surgeries with local schools could help produce the next generation of medical graduates.
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Getting the message across
With the reforms attempting to introduce competition into almost all facets of the NHS, it’s time for marketing in the health service to get with the times.
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Stuck in the middle
Being in middle management often requires evasive action to avoid friendly fire from both directions.
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Achieving high quality care at manageable costs: a lesson for GP consortia
Lessons from the States are often relegated to the ‘too different to be useful’ box, but on closer inspection there are many similarities between American medical groups and the proposed GP consortia – as Paul Zollinger-Read learned on a recent visit to Boston.
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Tyranny of When
How many of us have thought, at some time, I’ll really feel happy when (I’ve got the promotion, bought the new car, been on a world cruise…or whatever) and see happiness as something over the horizon - when what we already have is something to celebrate?
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Learning the management lingo
Ambitious managers need to learn a certain type of language to get ahead - the rest of us just need to try and work out what they’re saying.