All Blogs articles – Page 15
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Toynbee exposes the waiting list cheats
Polly Toynbee was right to expose waiting list cheats. But let’s fix the system, not start a witch-hunt against hospitals.
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December's waiting times data - the local picture
Resources for analysing local waiting times pressures by trust, PCT and specialty.
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Is there an I in success? Busting the team building myth
A successful team of staff doesn’t mean that all of them have to be “team players”. In fact if they don’t get on with each other, they may get on better with the job in hand.
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Latest on 18 week waits: better in December
The December 2011 data for 18-week waits shows a continued improvement, not just in the total list size, but also in the number of long-waiters.
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Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
Mark was angry, and the more he read, the angrier he got.
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Imperial's waiting times holiday
Imperial is taking a “reporting break” on 18-week waiters. Bad idea.
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
Better managment of care for people with both physical and mental health conditions would improve lives and save the NHS billions of pounds.
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PMQs and the truth about waiting times
David Cameron and Ed Miliband traded waiting time statistics over the dispatch box today. Who was right?
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Are managers too busy to manage?
NHS managers are too busy to address staff health at work, according to this headline in HSJ. The report on the launch of the Healthcare Management unit code of conduct provided the opportunity for Dame Carol Black to express her disappointment and frustration at the lack of buy by the ...
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Are leaders a product of their environment, or is it the other way round?
The People Manager compares a recent report on NHS Top Leaders being “over confident” with an interview given by a chief executive this week.
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The local picture on waiting times
Which trusts and PCTs have the biggest waiting times pressures? And how do we explain the trust whose patients are apparently frozen in time?
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Latest RTT waiting times data - November 2011
Data shows that waiting times improved in November.
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Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
The NHS has been given conflicting waiting times targets this year. There is a solution, and it lies mainly in PCT clusters’ hands.
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The issue of heterosexual discrimination
Issues of discrimination around employees’ sexuality can be common - but can organisation leaders make heterosexual employees feel uncomfortable?
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Profit and loss in the 'new' public sector
It is very clear now that the new public sector is going to look very different to the old public sector.
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Don't presume that racism is no longer a problem
Racism has been top of the news agenda again in recent days thanks to the conviction of Stephen Lawrence’s murderers, but how far have things really moved on?
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Abuse and negelect: what 2011 will be remembered for
The year started badly with ombudsman Ann Abraham’s damning report into elderly person’s care; then the Winterbourne View abuse case made things a lot worse. 2011 never really recovered as the image of neglect in the NHS sharpened. Will 2012 be any better?
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What will 2012 have in store for mental health?
Sean Duggan looks at the opportunities and challenges ahead for mental health.
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Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
Candace Imison asks whether potentially merging trusts’ evidence will meet the Competition and Cooperation panel’s exacting review standards, and what the challenge means for the 20 currently unviable trusts in the FT status pipeline.
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Disarray on waiting times targets
By keeping the old, distorting waiting times targets in the new NHS Contract, the government has undermined its stated intention to tackle excessive waits.