All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 45
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Mob-ilising for great care
What’s in a name? End Game ponders not the name a celebrity might give their first born child – that’s way too easy. The name is selected to attract the most tabloid column inches.No, End Game is contemplating, not for the first time, the meaning of the names given to ...
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Journalists for the Ethical Treatment of Women
There are many joys that come from End Game’s status working on a noted health publication, but foremost among them is that we get kept abreast of what’s going on in the world of eating.That’s because many mailing list machines think that “health policy” and “mindless guff about food” are ...
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Particularly pleasing
The Sunday Times list of the most influential and inspiring people in healthcare, compiled in partnership with Debrett’s People of Today, made for interesting reading, we thought.There were a few notable absences from the list selected by an “expert panel”, with neither the current nor incoming chief executives of NHS ...
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Greenhorn Nicholson
The departing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has been accused of many, many things, but naivety has not been among them as far as End Game can recall.But perhaps he’s a more innocent soul than we thought.We learn that Sir David recently gave a speech to an audience ...
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The blue badge test: when the director's job becomes impossible
It can show how an organisation deals with the most basic and simple request from a customer
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Ministerial pedigree
End Game was impressed to discover that Norman Lamb is a descendent of the painter Henry Lamb, who was part of Sickert’s Camden Town group of post-impressionists.Thanks to a parliamentary question, we now know that the care services minister has a few of his ancestor’s works up on the wall ...
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BlogsTime to topple the kings of the castle
Borgen shows a model of leadership the opposite of NHS macho management.
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BlogsThe blurred lines around who you can appoint
The NHS is not democratically and locally accountable
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The revolution will not be trivialised
End Game has learned of an underground rebellion looking to sweep away the “old guard” and bring about a new order and a better NHS world for us all.This insidious group of “heretics and radicals” first caught our eye in the Twittersphere – particularly via the tweets of radical-in-chief Helen ...
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BlogsWaiting times: safe, fair, short, efficient
The Northern Ireland Assembly asked for some advice on waiting times policy. So I had a grand day out in Belfast, and this is what I suggested.
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Boardroom battles take place in the shadows
It’s not the person having a row with you that you need to worry about, the plotters and schemers tend to do their work behind closed doors
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End Game exclusive! DH gets loved-up
End Game’s cockles were warmed on a recent visit to Richmond House when we saw that the Department of Health’s staff were being encouraged to 1) get amorous and 2) raise money for charity.Like many workplaces, the DH is running one of those Valentine’s Day schemes where you can buy ...
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And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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Stop looking for a quick fix from the private sector
The government puts too much emphasis on leadership and has too much admiration for private sector management
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Your 18 week waits: December 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 and specialty.
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BlogsSandbags, dredging and waiting times forecasts
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency’s management of flood risk?
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Update the unwritten rules of workplace behaviour
More staff feeling they can be open about their sexuality is a measure of progress in terms of equality
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BlogsCQC to improve referral to treatment monitoring
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn’t perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
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BlogsLife on the front line is tough wherever you work
Many nurses want to move jobs, but the causes of their disillusionment go far beyond their current trust.