All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 42
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Gallic abstraction
Few NHS England board members are better versed in the pithy soundbite than the exuberant Tim Kelsey.Getting your message across to Fleet Street means talking in simple, grandiose terms and repeating your main points in case the dozy journos are a bit hungover and slow on the uptake, as Mr ...
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Why do we keep paying off the same senior managers?
Making managers redundant over and over again is costing the NHS a fortune
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Stony silence
Savings plans! Contentious stuff! What do we cut, sorry, do more efficiently?Each year HSJ asks each of the 140 general hospital trusts in England about the size and shape of their savings programme.What, then, are we to make of our interactions with one trust that will remain nameless (not really, ...
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Waiting times steady in September
The position on English waiting times remained steady in September. But nearly half the country’s one year waiters were reported at just one hospital.
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The menace of the salami slice
The image of salami slicing has long haunted public servants as they have seen their budgets whittled down over successive years.However, last week’s HSJ Summit event was treated to a new metaphor, that of sausage making. End Game was slightly baffled at the time but we believe it to have ...
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Your 18 week waits: September 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one year waits, with links to all the detail by organisation.
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Monitor-vember
End Game has little interest in charity, so don’t try it on.But we were forced admit that Monitor press officer Sonya Cullington brightened up what may otherwise have risked being a turgid morning press conference about the regulator’s review of walk-in centre closures by wearing a moustache.What japes! It was ...
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Jermey Hunt has jumped the shark
A new prison sentence for wilful neglect is an unnecessary gimmick
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Party time
Special End Game love goes to the comms firm which got in early with our first Christmas party invitation this year. In the seasonal spirit of goodwill, we won’t name it.Their bash takes place on 26 November – for those of you who are no good at maths, that’s very ...
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Flailed hedges
It’s every NHS chief executive’s worst nightmare: becoming embroiled in a local scandal where vulnerable local residents have come to harm in an obscure bit of their organisation they probably haven’t thought about in while.Spare a thought then for the folk at Devon Partnership Trust. The Plymouth Herald reports that ...
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Lessons from Co-op Bank: how much should the chair know?
The criticism of former Co-operative Bank chair Paul Flowers overlooks the benefits of boards operating with a non-expert chair
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Why do so few leaders speak out about disastrous changes?
Not enough leaders stand their ground when bad changes are imposed on the NHS, but good leadership means having the courage to speak out, says Blair McPherson.
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Profound disappointment
HSJ hacks were eagerly awaiting the final version of guidance on safe staffing levels from the chief nursing officer and the National Quality Board, despite obtaining a draft almost a week before publication.You see, the leaked version ended with a tantalising question from one anonymous editor: “Do we need to ...
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A chicken and horse situation
Whenever there’s a big policy announcement, End Game always gets deluged with preposterous responses from PRs keen to get a mention on these pages.This week the honours go to the union Unite, for the superb mixed metaphors contained in its verdict on the government’s response to the Francis inquiry.Head of ...
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Don't believe everything you read...
Thumbing through the Department of Health response to Francis, End Game was shocked to learn that the government had lost all confidence in the General Medical Council and was proposing to transfer the medical revalidation programme to NHS England.“We are now at the right point for transferring the programme to ...
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Taxi for none
A patient who recently had cause to visit a West Country hospital recently regaled a tale to health chiefs about how, when told they needed to visit another trust an hour down the road, they were initially pleased to learn a taxi would be called so their records could be ...
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Long-waits soar in Scotland
Scotland is achieving its main waiting times targets. Yet long-waits are soaring.
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Power games
End Game has learned Sir David Nicholson has been broadening his cultural horizons as his period in charge of NHS England draws to a close.In recent weeks the big beast has apparently been absorbed in Game of Thrones, the glossy American fantasy TV series.The show has been described as “The ...
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The NHS's own dead parrot sketch
Some of the sketches of the reunited Monty Python bring the new NHS to mind
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'Just enough' is far from good enough
The vast majority of workers are not strivers or skivers but fall somewhere inbetween, so how can managers get the best from them?