All Change management articles – Page 32
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NewsFinance directors plan to renegotiate supplier contracts
NHS finance directors are increasingly pessimistic about the financial outlook for their organisations and plan to address their concerns by renegotiating contracts with suppliers.
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NewsCost of regulation merger reaches into millions
Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
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HSJ KnowledgeFT competencies: a new look for leaders
The next step in the evolution of foundation trusts will require their top people to develop different leadership skills from those that did the job in the early days
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NewsBuilding Britain's Future hints at threat to SHAs
The government has set out plans to turn NHS targets into enforceable patient entitlements in a move that is likely to see the role of strategic health authorities reduced.
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CommentJon Restell: how to cope
The ever rolling aftermath of the credit crunch – a new angle every day – makes horizon scanning a full time job. For those who only have time for a quick look up from the grindstone, I list the main trouble spots, as I see them, and some suggestions on ...
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CommentPaul Corrigan: the future of foundation trusts
The biggest clash between NHS culture and strategy continues to be found around foundation trusts.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Who Moved My Cheese?
This book’s a bestseller, but could all those mice have possibly got it wrong?
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NewsLondon stroke and trauma shake-up gets public approval
London’s primary care trusts are claiming a success in their bid to consolidate stroke and trauma services in the capital.
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CommentLord Darzi on the first year of high quality care for all
The NHS’s cup is not running over as the service enters a period of increasing financial pressure, but the vintage laid down last year offers the best hope for everyone’s future
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NewsDavid Nicholson gives leaders a license to experiment
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has pledged that managers will not risk their jobs if they experiment with new ways of delivering services.
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CommentYour Humble Servant on the NHS reshuffle
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: NHS reshuffle
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Handbook of Large Group Methods
Study the best ways for large groups to work together, says Julia Tybura
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CommentPete Mason on surviving change
To say that the health service is drastically changing is like pointing out that the sun is warm.
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BlogsOn Arctic marathons and large scale change
Training to run an Arctic marathon has made me reflect on the psychology of large scale change.
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CommentStephen Eames on large scale health solutions
Writing this, I know there will be catcalls from many quarters because as a chief executive of a large acute organisation I will be regarded as self interested, self serving or at worst unreconstructed, but here goes.
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CommentHow to create a culture of safety in the NHS
Almost every week, there are examples of poorly co-ordinated healthcare in the national papers: a “hospital blunder” here, a “scandal” there. But what will really wake clinicians up are the failures at Mid Staffordshire.
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HSJ KnowledgeDavid Nicholson on NHS challenges
David Nicholson talks about the challenges ahead of the NHS including improving quality and reducing costs while fostering good working relationships.
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HSJ KnowledgeAlastair Campbell on the stigma of mental health
Alastair Campbell talks about the stigma and discrimination attached to mental health and how the NHS must lead the way in improving conditions for patients
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CommentDerek Campbell: There can be no progress without prevention
The impending financial squeeze makes it more important than ever to invest in preventing ill health in communities, rather than simply spending more on treatment
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CommentJenny Rogers on the irritating whine of the complainant
My friend B has been dismayed by the poor standard of treatment her husband has received at their local acute trust.