All Health Service Journal articles in Blogs – Page 47
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Proper tea is theft
End Game fans will remember, perhaps with a nostalgic chuckle, that a few months ago we exclusively revealed that Sir David Nicholson takes a Nottingham Forest mug on tour with him.The famous mug, in its new home at the HSJ national support centreWe’re still not quite sure why he did ...
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SRO for fun
Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s director for patients and information and End Game stalwart, gave the audience at the HC 2014 conference last week a peculiar insight into the health service’s appraisal system for senior managers.He told delegates at the health IT jamboree that, as part of his appraisal, he had ...
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BlogsFlorida: the future of older people's care?
In the US, there is a bizarre lack of nursing homes
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BlogsThe NHS should resist the American way
There are too many cultural differences for US business methods to translate into success in the UK public sector
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Shakin' Simon
Simon Stevens’ arrival at NHS England has been marked, in what is becoming the conventional fashion, by an unfunny Twitter spoof account.Twitter fans may be aware that previous attempts to caricature Mr Stevens’ predecessor, Sir David Nicholson, rapidly ran out of puff and were nothing like as bonkers as Sir ...
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Beneath blue suburban skies
If John Winston Lennon and Paul James McCartney had written Penny Lane today instead of back in the sixties they may have replaced their fond reference to the barbers shop with a hospital.And not just any hospital. Private healthcare firm Spire has announced the building at Number One Penny Lane ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 ...