All Blogs articles – Page 11
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Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in today’s NHS?
League tables, naming and shaming and austerity have put more pressure on managers in the public sector, making if difficult for some to remain honest and open.
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Commissioning board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
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NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Small improvements meant new record-bests for long-waiters in November.
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Leadership lessons from the Thin White Duke
The NHS is seeking to revive a familiar refrain with a return to “heroic leadership”.
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One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it’s essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.
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Lessons from Boston on integrated care
Pamela Garside reports back from her trip to the US in winter last year to explore “value-based healthcare”.
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More management, less leadership please
Not everyone can be a leader but many more can be managers and take greater control of organisational life around them.
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Military-style leadership doesn't suit the public sector
Why the armed forces’ show of force leadership style is the wrong type for the NHS and local government.
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The prospects for health and social care in 2013
The pressure and demands on the NHS in 2013 will be so great it will be impossible to duck the big questions about what kind of health and care system we are willing to fund.
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A new look for NHS leaders in 2013
Will the appearance of NHS managers follow trends from the Middle East in the coming year?
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BlogsWhy the public sector shouldn't use head hunters
Recruitment consultants will identify the right person for the post but this is not necessarily the best person, which is why the publci sector should not use them.
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A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
CCGs have the opportunity to reform patterns of service provision and ways of working.A decade of austerity could spur on some long overdue changes to our health and care system..
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Your 18 week waits: October 2012 data
Interactive maps showing where the very-long-waiters are, how organisations fare against the “92 per cent within 18 weeks” target, and where the most clock pausing is happening. All updated with the latest October 2012 data.
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BlogsOrthopaedics scrapes inside waiting target for first time
Long waits are down again, but the total number waiting is a bit higher than usual. This will become worrying, if it carries on.
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Acquisitions are not just a business process
Acquisitions won’t work unless attention is paid to issues other than just the business process of one organisation acquiring another.
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BlogsThe drama of being a whistleblower
The potentially traumatic experience of being a public sector whistleblower, plus the dangers of NHS hospitals being “all most full”
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Concern that black staff are more likely to be disciplined
In the NHS and other public sector organisations, black staff are involved in a disproportionate number of disciplinary cases
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Scotland's waiting times slide again
Scotland’s long waits are worse again, though you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage.
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BlogsDeveloping integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
There is not one best way to develop integrated care. Politicians, NHS leaders and frontline staff should join together to test different approaches, writes the King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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Your 18 week waits: September 2012 data
Interactive maps show where the long-waits are, the waiting time pressures and where the most “clock pausing” is happening: by specialty, by trust and independent sector provider and PCT.