All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 46
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By the rivers of Babylon, or what Ali Parsa did next
Babylon! The Mesopotamian city-state, whose hanging gardens were considered the one of the wonders of the world.Babylon! Founded two millennia before Christ, whose ruins could be seen from the window of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces.Babylon! Site of the mythic tower of Babel, that enduring allegory for man’s hubris!Babylon! Seat ...
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BlogsThere was no 'golden era' to be a public sector worker
Despite the perpetual challenges facing the public sector, young people still want to be social workers, teachers and nurses
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BlogsScottish waiting times still worsening
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s press release.
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The Downfall of Tim Kelsey
It would be charitable to describe care.data as a communications fiasco, but anyone wondering about its impact on the status of NHS England’s national director for patients and information today received an unexpected answer.It came in the form of a Downfall parody video. Readers will surely be familiar with the ...
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Jazz Expo
If NHS England had promoted care.data with the same gusto it advertised its own Expo in Manchester this week, it may well have avoided the unwelcome jaunt-up-poo-creak-sans-paddle-come-stool-storm it’s currently navigating.Care.data, which involves the laudable but tricky task of joining up patients’ health records without breaching their privacy, was advertised by ...
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Sixty per cent guff
The important matter of Monitor’s 2013-14 report and accounts was on the agenda at the regulator’s latest board meeting.It won’t be published until July. But it’s not surprising that the wheels have to be set in motion early when its proposed length is 86 pages.We’ll be honest - End Game’s ...
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BlogsYou can't run trusts like football clubs
It can take years for an underperforming organisation to get out of special measures
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The long walk to the boardroom
Are we a bunch of hard-nosed hacks who have seen too much of the cutthroat world of health policy? Yes, probably so, but even End Game’s icicle heart was warmed by a recent missive from Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust.We opened the chief executive’s report expecting the financial warnings and ...
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BlogsLove over fear in managing absenteeism
Managers need to show they care about the wellbeing of their employees
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Talking about talking about talking
There was so much sense talked at the NHS England Expo, and so very much of it tweeted out by NHS England’s media team, that it’s difficult to single out highlights.But a special mention goes to the SOCIAL COMMAND CENTRE – a sinister sounding piece of apparatus which in fact ...
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BlogsLookey-Likey on the Radio Mikey
VaughanRoylesHere are two twinkly-eyed, football loving everyblokes.Both have a personal style combining keen intelligence with down to earth, homespun common sense.Both enjoy wholesome pursuits – though one is into cooking and the other prefers a countryside stroll.It seems the only things separating DJ Johnny Vaughan and Dean Royles, the NHS’s ...
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Lincolnshire existentialists
Lincolnshire Community Health Services Trust hosted a fun jamboree to try and help inspire some of its resident smokers to kick the habit this month.The trust laid on a day of “1940s-themed No Smoking Day celebrations”, inviting all comers toimmerse themselves in 1940s spirit, with the retro dance demonstrators and ...
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Like a circle in a spiral
First, let us be absolutely clear that End Game is a profound supporter of NHS Change Day, and applauds both its aims and the outcomes of thousands of tiny improvements to make NHS services more considerate, caring and patient centred.But however committed our cheerleading, we will always be outclassed by ...
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BlogsWhatever happend to the battle against institutionalisation?
Good care practices appear to have been forgotten in senior management’s preoccupation with budgets
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Sir David's leaving do
Sir David Nicholson is now enough of an adopted southerner to have had his farewell drinks reception at St Thomas’s Hospital this week, and we made it onto the guest list.That means we were treated to canapés and free drinks – including some presumably ironic bottles of London Pride. We ...
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Hyaluronic acid: A love letter
Hyaluronic acid. Say it with End Game. Hyaluronic acid. We love the stuff! It’s easily our favourite kind of acid.Known simply as HA to its pals, hyaluronic acid is sometimes marketed as the “fountain of youth” because it is good for the joints and revitalises the skin. We’ve been a ...
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BlogsMiddle managers need to stir it up
Team leaders should be the ones agitating for radical change
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TeeKay's banter cannon
Tim Kelsey’s appetite for a good old josh on Twitter with his departing boss Sir David Nicholson appears undiminished despite recent events which hopefully won’t be remembered as Hitler-gate.The japery began when Sir David Nicholson tweeted a link to the now infamous Downfall parody video lampooning Mr Kelsey’s oversight of ...
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CQC loses its footing
Two senior individuals involved in the Care Quality Commission’s new hospital inspection regime have been spotted clunking around in orthopaedic boots – the sign of a nasty foot injury.An uncanny coincidence. Have they been giving some hapless trust a kicking? Or are hospitals under inspection feeling the pressure and fighting ...
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Yesterday's man
Sir David Nicholson – winner of End Game’s unofficial best ever person on social media award – has promised to keep tweeting about the NHS after he retires on Monday.We are sure we will continue to enjoy his weird and dangerous sense of humour for many years to come, but ...