All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 28
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How public health can help the neediest parents
Smart working by the new public health system, the NHS and schools can tackle children’s behavioural problems effectively
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Your 18 week waits: August 2012 data
Interactive maps showing where the long-waits are, and where the most clock pausing is happening, by specialty, and by NHS Trust, independent sector provider, and PCT.
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The Foundation Trust Network: you had to be there
The FTN’s first annual conference heard that patient centred care has to be at the heart of the FT movement.
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Winterbourne View was shocking but hardly surprising
Some people will be genuinely shocked at the prison sentences handed out to staff who worked at the Winterbourne View home for people with learning disabilities.
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Healthcare in the US election: fact, fiction and Big Bird
While the focus of the 2008 US election was healthcare (and the colour of the candidates’ ties), the 2012 election is all about money (and the colour of the candidates’ ties).Over the past few weeks, money and jobs have typically dominated the presidential and vice presidential debates. That said, healthcare ...
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Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
Have you a management philosophy? Mine is if its not explicitly against the rules then I can probably get away with it.As a senior manager I told a large gathering of managers that they should not be asking HR or finance for permission to do what they wanted to do ...
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BlogsStairlifts on cell block H: who cares for older prisoners?
The photograph was of a frail man in a wheelchair handcuffed to a prison officer. The article and accompanying photograph appeared in The Guardian highlighting the problem of caring for the increasing numbers of elderly and disabled prisoners.The story focused on the comments by the hospital consultant who criticised the ...
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BlogsTrust chief executives have one of toughest jobs there is
The people in the hottest seats around need more support
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BlogsThe mandate provides a historic opportunity for better mental healthcare
Board and CCGs tasked with tackling disparity between physical and mental health support
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BlogsProtecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?
Sir David Nicholson has had to defend the role of the NHS’s new “head of brand”
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New record best for one-year-waiters (now let's go for zero)
A fantastic result on one-year waiters: come on, let’s get them down to zero. Otherwise, everything on waiting times is pretty much treading water.
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Transforming real waiting lists with better scheduling
How a rules-based approach to patient scheduling can dramatically reduce waiting times.
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What's so hard about saying sorry?
Most people who complain just want an apology or explanation. They are not looking for compensation or staff to be disciplined.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.