All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 3
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Moral question
We at End Game regularly have our morals called into question, but rarely are we brazenly flirted with by interviewees.No longer: a nursing director – who on balance we have decided not to identify – signed off a an otherwise run-of-the-mill chat with the mother of all non-sequiturs, by asking ...
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Dispatches from the other side
“I’m available”. With those two lonely, listless words, Sir David Nicholson summed up the tragedy of retirement.It will be no surprise to readers that End Game saw the utterance on Twitter, where Sir David continues to display the symptoms of a keen mind in search of something, anything, to do. ...
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Better a poor service than no service
We’ve moved for “take it or leave it” care to “like it or lump it”
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It's sometimes best not to follow the leader
Following a success story can be difficult for leaders everywhere
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Get a grip
The elderly. When we were babies they cradled us, secure in the knowledge that when their hour of need arrived we would return the favour.Why don’t they just “Get a Grip”? Not our words – this is the name of an initiative from South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs who ...
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iPath
Ipods revolutionised, and possibly destroyed, the recording industry forever, with their convenience, user friendliness and the bewildering, strangely alienating level of choice they offer.Vinyl records, on the other hand, may be fragile and cumbersome, but are also beautiful and comforting objects that ooze history and value.So what are we to ...
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BlogsDepartment of dogs
End Game hears many reports of hairy beasts roaming the corridors of Richmond House but rarely are they serving any purpose which could be deemed therapeutic for anyone apart from perhaps themselves.So it was heartwarming to hear that the department’s policy teams were visited by three flat coated retriever dogs ...
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BlogsLooky likey
Buzz LightyearWhen HSJ naughtily put together a joke piece for April Fool’s Day, we thought we had made it implausible enough to be self-evidently a joke.Chortling to ourselves, we ran a story stating that ministers would have to tell the truth in future, as they were to be subjected to ...
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You need more than a change in the law to improve care
Without resources and changes in attitude things remain the same
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BlogsLooky unlikely
Jon Restell: the charming chief executive of the union for HSJ readers, Managers In Partnership.Gordon Brown: author of unpopular books and noted Arctic Monkeys fan.No-one actually thinks these two gentlemen look anything alike, except for a jocular passer-by (isn’t that always the worst sort of passer-by?) who spotted Mr Restell ...
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Anyone who had a heart
Jeremy Hunt continues to have a lovely time criss-crossing the nation visiting hospitals and seeing all the wonderful things that are going on.The latest trust to have the honour was Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Tweeteth Jeremy: “Thanks to staff @SheffieldHosp for a great afternoon seeing surgical teams at the cutting edge. ...
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The politics of language
It can be hard to keep up with the evolution of acceptable language for talking about people
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BlogsI don’t want to be a consumer, I'm happy to be a patient
Doctor may know best on medical decisions, but they should still treat patients as adults
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Big hairy audacious cliche
End Game was chuffed to see Ara Darzi was returning to health policy world as chair of the London Health Commission, and sincerely hopes that his high quality thoughts actually get listened to this time.Thumbing through the commission’s recently published evidence summary, we also noted another blast from the recent ...
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A new boss to navigate us through the next few years
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens must be prepared to change direction should he find himself going the wrong way
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Daughters of fortune
The world of finance is more commonly associated with mammon and the love of money, aka the root of all evil, than with holiness and the simple life of devotion to the Lord.So imagine our surprise when we learned that a group of nuns called the Congregation of the Daughters ...
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A salty bullet
Forget about pay restraint, referral management and primary care prescribing, there’s a new show in QIPP town apparently – bath salts.Reports have reached End Game, via fashion and beauty bible Cosmopolitan, that these “age old health boosters” could also save the NHS £14.5 billion annually.Yes, just under a seventh of ...
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Sophisticated Simon
By now, you should be aware that the NHS’s Lord and saviour Simon Stevens launched his descent into the NHS with an appearance on his first day in the North East of England.
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In the NHS you need political skills to survive
The casualty rate among chief executives is rising. To survive they need to hone their political skills. But what does it mean to be politically aware and sensitive?
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The Nicholson Index
In one of his last speeches as NHS England boss, Sir David Nicholson gave his final assessment of the reformed commissioning sector, a year post-transition.Clinical commissioning groups were given a strong eight marks out of 10, and credited them for the fact that the system had not rapidly collapsed in ...