All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 14
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It's the vision thing
Joseph Chamberlain, the man who brought street lighting and paving to Birmingham, is generally considered the nation’s greatest public health visionary.But perhaps Public Health England can be seen to have similar visionary powers.A few months ago the organisation was widely mocked for producing an action plan to deal with a ...
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The waiting list grows, but 18 week waits improve
A narrow record-best on 18 weeks, slippage on one-year-waits, and a further worrying increase in the number waiting.
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'Special measures' are a stick to beat trusts with
In my experience, trying to get out of special measures is the start of reducing the quality of services
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BlogsWe cannot let the NHS slip backwards
The NHS has come a long way in the last couple of decades − to keep gaining ground we need a national debate on the kind of NHS we want to see
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BlogsThe difference between a board and a cabinet
Council meetings tend to be a bit more rowdy than their NHS trust board counterparts
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Circularity: the seventh C
The first two elements on NHS England’s list of essential elements of compassionate care, featured on a press release commemorating the service’s 65th birthday, bowled End Game over.They are (wait for it!): care and compassion.“Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment, are values essential to compassionate care,” says the document.End ...
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BlogsWe're missing the signs of alcohol abuse among older people
The over 65 population is drinking in ever greater numbers, posing a new set of healthcare problems
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The cuisine quality commission
A recent Care Quality Commission investigation has uncovered some unsettling truths about life in one north eastern town.Patients told the CQC that at Auckland Park Hospital, “They make an excellent meal here; [the] best in town”.End Game sympathies go to restaurant-goers in Bishop Auckland.
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Lights, camera, inaction
TV’s Undercover Boss is a lesson in management – for all the wrong reasons
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BlogsMy own experience of a report 'cover up'
I was told my report identifying serious concerns at one organisation could not be made public
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Tredinnick's pet subject
When the health select committee member and pro-homeopathy campaigner David Tredinnick, prefaces a question with “this may sound a little bit odd”, you know you’re in for a treat.Mr Tredinnick somehow managed steer several minutes of a recent committee evidence session, which was supposed to be about the implementation of ...
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Incendiary reporting
“SEND FIREMEN ON 999 CALLS INSTEAD OF AMBULANCES,” bellowed a Daily Mail headline.It was in reference to NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson’s recent Commons health select committee appearance in which he said he had given thought to the idea of the fire service “supporting paramedics”.A very boring quote ...
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There was a light...
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has revealed that he used to really like The Smiths, but has gone off them a bit in recent years.In a weirdly lengthy interview with the Independent (one would think his fomulation of a new top-down reorganisation of the health and care service would be ...
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Wicked whispers
End Game has been handed a set of emails showing how Department of Health flacks handled(ish) one of the more recent NHS crises.They made interesting reading, considering how divorced from each other NHS England and the Department of Health are supposed to be post-liberation of the NHS.In one, a Richmond ...
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Chirpy man
It seems the NHS has been freed from central control to such an extent that it now occupies a mythical realm beyond the constraints of rational thought.It is only natural, post liberation, that we all think carefully about what everyone’s job actually is these days.But health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s deliberations ...
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Grabbing the headlines
It was refreshing to see the Foundation Trust Network launching a staunch defence of the Care Quality Commission, amid allegations the regulator was not fit for purpose in the wake of the “cover up” scandal.Lesser interest groups might have reached for the popcorn, sat back and watched as the quality ...
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Collateral damage
Amid the cut and thrust of health policy debate on the internet, spare a thought for those who get caught in the middle. Foremost among the innocent victims must be long suffering Twitter user Mr Benjamin M. A’Lee.Why? Well, with the best will in the world, Mr A’Lee used his ...
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The expert patient
Apparently it really is true what they say about the patient being the expert.A recent Care Quality Commission report into West Cumberland Hospital quoted one patient they spoke as saying it had been “marvellous to see a holistic and multi-disciplinary team approach.”End Game firmly condemns wags on Twitter who said ...
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The radiology for fun tariff
An excited press release arrives from a tech firm who are desperate for us to use their name, boasting that their equipment was used to identify the bones of deceased monarch Richard III.End Game thanks them for getting in touch, but is more interested in the fact that the work ...
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Doctor Wars
Word reaches End Game that some American funsters have come up with a game based on the premise that medics can be a bit competitive.We don’t know where they got that idea. Anyway, “Doctor Wars” is apparently a game in which “chance and strategy are the prescription for fun”.“When doctors ...