All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 12
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Minister for modesty
Dan Poulter, the hirsute-is-too-small-a-word minister, doctor and model, has now been in office for a year.So what has he been up to? We went to his website to check on his achievement map (which regular readers might remember listed seven achievements a few months ago), but found the tool had ...
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Letter from America
A hearty End Game standing ovation goes to former British Medical Journal editor Richard Smith for bringing incredible personal flair to that most mundane of communiques – the “out of office” email.Here’s what a recent automated response said:“Gone to Chicago that city of hammers, meat, graft, bull, and pork to ...
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At last: transparency on NHS IT
David Cameron in October promised to free nurses from endless form-filling by giving them all iPads - £100m of iPads to be exact, which (bearing in mind the government’s success in previous health IT procurements) ought to buy at least 10.The PM’s involvement inevitably raised the interest of journalists who ...
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BlogsCareer advice: be opinionated, abrasive and intolerant
Seven tips for reaching the top of the tree in your profession
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Leadership is about taking responsibility
Leadership isn’t just about grand visions and great strategies or inspiring staff. Often leadership is simply about taking responsibility.
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A rich historical legacy
First Richard III’s body was found under a council car park, now Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has made a sensational discovery of equally historic proportions.End Game was astonished to receive a trust press release explaining how an £8m renovation project at Hull Royal Infirmary led to “a piece ...
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PCTs: forgotten forever?
End Game firmly believes that just because primary care trusts were bloodily sacrificed on the altar of clinical commissioning that doesn’t mean they should be forgotten.So we put in a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health asking how PCTs performed on their final year of quality, innovation ...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about John Ashton, and quite a lot more besides
End Game has been enjoying the Twitter account of John Ashton for some months, mainly because it allows us to answer the question “what happens when a senior figure broadcasts whatever is on his mind, without the slightest regard to his personal reputation?”Mr Ashton is president of the Faculty of ...
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BlogsOutpatient waits take the pain in Scotland
Scotland does well against its two main waiting times targets. So why are outpatient waits soaring?
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Working 9 to 5
More evidence arrives that commissioning support units are becoming ever more businessy in their working practices.Greater Manchester CSU sent End Game an email boasting that after just four and a half months of operation they had set up a new website.The site is graced with “a modern, colourful design and ...
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BlogsDon't listen at your peril
The weekend’s media was full of the leadership lessons from last week’s parliamentary debate on Syria. Perhaps the biggest lesson is about listening.
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For whom the whistle blows
There’s no doubt former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Gary Walker is a controversial figure. However, End Game wonders whether we’ve not fully appreciated the scale of his achievements.Tweeting ahead of a BBC programme he featured in recently, Mr Walker pondered whether “one person’s whistleblower is another’s enemy”. He ...
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Kelsey Uncut: Tweet 'n' delete
End Game has been a fan of NHS England’s colourful national director for patients and information Tim Kelsey for some time - and his Twitter account in particular.The latest missives from what we like to think of as “Kelsey Uncut” were fired off after a privacy campaigner raised concerns around ...
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Only in America?
A gunman with a psychiatric disorder took a school librarian hostage after his Medicaid cover an out.
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FOI exemptions revisited
When not busy writing this page, End Game likes to while away the day composing fiendishly worded freedom of information requests, mainly because the ingenuity so many public organisations display as they find reasons to not respond to them is a joy to behold.So take a bow, Northamptonshire County Council, ...
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A leadership balancing act
It seems that successful senior managers who give interviews fall into two types: the ‘people people’ and the macho managers; neither are helpful role models.
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Your 18 week waits: June 2013 data
All the local detail on 18 weeks by provider, commissioner and specialty, with interactive maps
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Waiting list grows more slowly as NHS catches up
The waiting list grew more slowly in June, helped by higher admission rates. Even though the waiting list remains very large, 18 weeks performance held steady.
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Hacks are coming: get bustling
Readers may remember a common acquisition for any rebel-without-a-cause teenager was a “comedy” T-shirt proclaiming: “Jesus is coming: look busy”. As a teen, End Game chortled at the wit and wisdom of the slogan. As a know it all student, End Game thought it was hackneyed and naff. It ...
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Lead from the front and behind the scenes
The NHS requires leaders across the service who are influential and willing to learn from others