All Community articles – Page 11
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CommunityLookey-Likey: David Stout and Richard Thomas
NHS Confederation primary care trust network director David Stout has more in common with information commissioner Richard Thomas than just looks: both take a keen interest in freedom of information laws, on which Mr Stout has penned a report.
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CommunityBruce Almighty
We know everyone at the Department of Health is very busy, but NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh’s workload is getting absurd.
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Political prudes
A general election is looming, in case you have not noticed, and Whitehall press officers have already started to use their civil service rule book as an excuse to not answer difficult questions - lest their response be interpreted as somehow “political”.
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CommunityLookey-likey: Nigel Edwards and Mark Williams
A reader has spotted the similarity between NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards and actor Mark Williams from the “Suits you sir” Fast Show sketch.
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CommunityAffair trial
A press release titled “Women in healthcare have more affairs” prompted bemused smiles all round last week, even from HSJ’s hardened hacks.
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CommunityUp in smoke
It would be enough to send even the most steel willed public health director reaching for the Marlboros. East Lancashire primary care trust last week ‘fessed up to having double-counted its smoking cessation figures for much of the past year.
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CommunityLookey-likey: The sneezing man and Malcolm Tucker
Topical lookey-likey: the man spraying germy snot everywhere in the Department of Health’s swine flu prevention adverts looks like foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It and In the Loop.
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CommunityPig deal
It’s hard enough to take swine flu seriously since it sounds like an illness affecting nasty people, but endless viral emails and text messages aren’t doing much to improve its image. So far we’ve had people carted off in “hambulances”, victims breaking out in “rashers” and “farmacists” selling patients the ...
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Barefaced cheek
We all know ambulance work can be tough, but last week a Surrey paramedic was particularly desperate for an after work tipple. After a Tesco worker refused to serve him a bottle of wine on the grounds that he was an emergency services employee in uniform, he stormed out of ...
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CommunitySex games
Here’s one for you from the seedy world of web analytics. Last week, 10 people (you know who you are) searched Google for “sex game” and landed right on HSJ’s community section. Rest assured, your trusted publication has not launched a raunchy microsite for NHS managers looking for a distraction ...
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CommunityLookey-likey: Mark Britnell and Sean Penn
A film buff at HSJ has spotted the resemblance between NHS director general for commissioning and system management Mark Britnell and Sean Penn in gangster film Carlito’s Way.
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CommunityStubbed out
Anti-smoking lobbyists ASH wasted no time in condemning last week’s Budget, calling it “another missed opportunity to clamp down on smuggling”.
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CommunityLookey-likey: James Lockley and Louis Theroux
Another suggestion from NHS Ealing Lookey-Likeys Ltd.
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Tories jump the gun
You can’t fault their enthusiasm but it seems staff at the Conservative party’s Millbank HQ are getting a bit ahead of themselves.
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Friends only
At its annual reception this week, King’s Fund chief executive Niall Dixon announced its new “friends of the fund scheme”, giving those who sign up, among other things, the twice-yearly opportunity to “meet the experts” and access to its new friends’ lounge.