Comment archive – Page 393
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CommentSafia Debar and David Colin-Thomé on the manager-clinician divide
A doctor and her mentor discuss the challenges facing clinical leaders
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CommentLisa Rodrigues on the media and clinical leadership
I’ve had one of those weeks. I was on the interview panel to appoint the chief executive of the NHS Confederation and within 24 hours we were the top story on BBC News at 10.How does one convey to the public that bad things sometimes happen? Particularly when they are ...
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Michael White on health inequalities
Late Sunday afternoon I made myself comfortable to read the latest Commons select committee report on health inequalities before cooking our planned supper of grilled fish and greens.
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Dignity in health and social care
Some simple practical steps can greatly improve patients’ experience of dignity. But the new quality accounts must recognise this if it is to be taken seriously by frontline staff
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Daphne Austin on NHS exceptional funding decisions
One aspect of priority setting that presents difficulties is funding requests for individual patients, particularly those based on alleged “exceptionality”.
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Andrew Jones on a surgical safety innovation
Setting the quality objectives for a health and wellbeing organisation requires a focus on patient safety.
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Angela Greatley on focusing on mental health
It has become an accepted fact among those of us who work in mental health that there is no health without mental health. But does the NHS think this way?Mental ill health is not just a hugely significant and costly burden on those who live with it. It is also ...
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Patient safety: the first step is saying you have a problem
One of the more delicate steps in encouraging a patient safety culture was taken last week, with the first trust by trust breakdown of safety incident reporting.
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NHS managers' pay turns red tops green with envy
Salary envy is coming to the NHS. As the recession decimates jobs, pension pots and pay rises in the private sector, newspapers are turning their cynical fire on the pay and perks of public sector managers.
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Michael White on statistics, choice and stem cells
Does it matter much if it proves true that one of Alan Johnson's staff facilitated the publication of knife crime data, this despite warnings by NHS statisticians that they were 'potentially inaccurate'? Senior Tories, including Andrew Lansley, think so.
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Your Humble Servant on the hospitality challenge
‘As you know we have tried to look into the benefits of applying for AHSC status ourselves, but have been told that it’s all about being internationally competitive so even with our cohort of Filippino nurses we wouldn’t qualify’
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Mark Goldman on becoming an NHS follower
I was heading home after a 72-hour turnaround trip to Vancouver, courtesy of the province of Ontario. My brief was to report on the state of the NHS.
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Steve Onyett on healthcare reform
To describe the underpinning principles of the new Department of Health approach to change, health secretary Alan Johnson and NHS chief executive David Nicholson use the terms co-production, subsidiarity, clinical ownership and leadership, and system alignment.
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Yi Mien Koh on a week in the life of an NHS manager
It is always a valuable exercise to look back at the week, reviewing where our time has been spent and what has come of it.
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Is your employer in the Healthcare 100 club?
Do you work for one of the best health employers in the country?
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For the highest calibre NHS leaders, this is your chance to shine
As HSJ's exclusive world class commissioning league table reveals this week, most primary care trusts have emerged from the first round of world class commissioning with good foundations in place.
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Michael White on contaminated blood
It never ceases to amaze me how society attaches different value to different lives.
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Jason Warner on improving learning disabilities services
There is evidence that many people with a learning disability are more susceptible to poorer health than the rest of the UK population.
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Jenny Rogers on NHS whistleblowing dilemmas
When talk turns to whistleblowing in the public sector, and how organisations can make it easier for the whistle to be heard, the solution usually suggested is a whistleblowing policy.
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The Clinical Leaders Network: delivering better care
Dr Amir Hannan talks about how the Clinical Leaders Network has helped him deliver a new clinical assessment and treatment service in Greater Manchester