All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 11
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Lights, camera, cliche
Drumming up support for worthy causes is a good thing – but that doesn’t give PRs carte blanche to write complete twaddle.The press release promoting the 75th birthday of the British Polio Fellowship is a case in point.“Lights, camera, Polio, action!” parped the headline on the release which went on ...
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Running prize
End Game was delighted to see the famous runner Clive Peedell at the recent HSJ Efficiency Awards in London.He was being honoured with a gong for devising a time-saving route from Nye Bevan’s birthplace to Jeremy Hunt’s constituency (or something). Inevitably, the co-leader of the National Health Action Party, who ...
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Stock punishment
We are pleased to report that Heatherwood Hospital’s fete went brilliantly and everyone had a jolly nice time - including Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust chief executive Philippa Slinger.This was despite her being put in the stocks and pelted with wet sponges.End Game has decided not to worry about ...
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Revolutionary measures
NHS England last week trumpeted that it had “launched a package of revolutionary measures to ensure the voices of patients, their carers and the public are at the centre of healthcare services”.“Transforming participation in health and care,” the media release continued, “is online guidance to commissioners that aims to put ...
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MP for barnet
Never let it be said that politicians don’t do anything during their endless summer breaks. Those attending the Liberal Democrat conference noticed that care services minister Norman Lamb has been very busy in recent weeks growing his barnet.Regular readers will doubtless remember that about a year ago End Game compared ...
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Bottomley's legacy
End Game has recently returned from the Labour Party conference in Brighton, where Andy Burnham wasn’t the only former health secretary exercising the comrades.Virginia Bottomley, who served as John Major’s health secretary during the 1990s, got a number of mentions. Current Richmond House incumbent Jeremy Hunt was variously described by ...
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BlogsYou don't want to know the answer
Managers are can choose to avoid bad news by not asking staff the right questions
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BlogsGive troubled trusts the right support to improve
When it comes to improving a trust’s performance, we must make sure we do not blur the lines of responsibility
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Trusts don't expect chief executives to stick around
High flyers will always move on to the next big job, but now trusts don’t even want them to be in post for long
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Blogs‘Look beyond the supermarket model for health services’
NHS commissioners should heed the experiences of other parts of the public sector to develop a health and social care model of commissioning
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Champagne deception
Ministers’ celebrations to mark the NHS’s 65th birthday earlier this year reflected the tough financial times and were suitably free of razzmatazz. They unveiled some proposals to improve patient care and visited some provider trusts.However, private hospitals are less self-conscious about making a dent in the events budget.End Game was ...
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Disestablishmentarianism in the NHS
NHS trust documents are awash crimes against the English language – but rarely does health service nonsense jargon conjure religious imagery.
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Scandinavian cool
End Game was delighted to receive an email from some agency or another on the state of the technology market on the continent.“Swedish enterprises are cautiously optimistic about their ICT spending”, thundered the headline.End Game was humbled by how utterly reasonable the sentiment was, and wonders whether there might be ...
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Mugging for the audience
End Game is something of an NHS England board meeting groupie, and thoroughly enjoys travelling the length and breadth of the country so we can watch our heroes being all transparent and yet eerily in agreement about everything.But apart from total consensus on issues of policy, there is another constant ...
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Your 18 week waits: July 2013 data
All the local detail on 18 weeks by provider, commissioner and specialty, with interactive maps
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English waiting list peaking just below 3 million
The English waiting list peaks just below 3 million: the largest reported list size since April 2008. But 18 weeks performance remains steady.
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True grit
End Game invites you to join us in celebrating UnitedHealth UK’s first decade of investment in our humble health sector.The British wing of the US health giant entered the UK market in 2003, probably riding a wave of Alan Milburn-inspired optimism that the time had finally come for efficient, forward ...
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Families shouldn't have to do a hospital's job
A friend’s experience in a Spanish hopsital is a warning for the NHS
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Celebrating our glorious NHS
Getting the NHS to its 65th birthday without killing it completely would be a cause of celebration for any government, and joining in with the festivities is surely an easy public relations win for ministers.So End Game was delighted to read the response to a parliamentary question asking what exactly ...
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The annual planning round (and round, and round)
How can we structure this year's planning round, to stop it from going around in circles?