All Leadership articles – Page 27
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HSJ LocalICB withdraws offer of ‘festive shopping day’ for staff
Staff at a Midlands integrated care board were offered an extra day holiday in December to go “festive shopping”, but the plan was then cancelled because of “escalating pressures”.
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NewsNHS reluctance to be open with patients after care failures sparks government review
The Department of Health and Social Care has launched a review of the ‘duty of candour’ policy, which gives patients and families the right to receive open and transparent communication when care goes wrong.
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NewsTrust chief executive quits to take job in Qatar
The chief executive of one of England’s biggest trusts is to leave after being headhunted for a senior leadership role in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar.
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CommentBlithering backs Streeting
Welcome to the latest edition of the Blithering ICB newsletter, a round-up of all the latest news from the country’s most challenged health economy.
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News‘Poor leadership’ and ‘closed culture’ concerns prompt service’s double downgrade
A struggling maternity service has received a double downgrade from a health watchdog after inspectors warned patients were being let down by ‘poor leadership’.
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NewsConsultants vote ‘no confidence’ in trust board
The consultants committee at a mental health trust has passed two ‘no confidence’ votes in its board, after the medical director was unexpectedly ‘removed’ from his duties.
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HSJ LocalCity’s two acutes to share CEO and chair
A city’s two acute trusts have announced plans to share a chair and chief executive.
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NewsEx-national director to lead ICS group
The former medical director of NHS Improvement – who now holds several local board roles – is to become chair of the national NHS Integrated Care System network.
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NewsMinister: There’s systemic racism in the NHS
A health and social care minister privately said there was ‘systemic’ racism within the NHS and called for an investigation into it.
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News‘Instrumental’ NHSE director departs
One of the architects of NHS England’s new commercial strategic framework is leaving the organisation this month.
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CommentHow to speak manager
If you want to go far in NHS management, don’t make the mistake of confusing plain English words with plain English, writes Julian Patterson
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NewsHigh profile director hired by trust to lead recovery from scandal
A trust which has been at the centre of a series of scandals over the last year has appointed a former regional director as its group chief medical officer.
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NewsSloman takes job with ex-minister’s firm
NHS England’s former chief operating officer Sir David Sloman has taken another private sector position, after stepping down in September.
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CommentThe NHS needs to give its 'accidental managers' more support
Inadequate training for NHS managers highlights a pressing need for mandated and high-quality leadership training to enhance patient care and organisational effectiveness, writes Anthony Painter
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CommentAmanda Pritchard’s diary: Passionate about priorities
This exclusive extract from the NHS chief executive’s diary is brought to you by the letter P (as told to Julian P)
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HSJ LocalTwo ICBs appoint chief executives
Two integrated care boards in the Midlands have made their interim chief executives substantive.
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HSJ LocalTrust reviews leadership options as CEO leaves for scandal-hit neighbour
A scandal-hit acute trust has appointed the long-serving leader of a specialist provider as its substantive chief executive.
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CommentWhy the Treasury said ‘no’ to the NHS’s extra £1bn ask
Treasury scepticism about NHS funding is ever more engrained. Local and national NHS leaders can help change it, argues Chris Thomas.
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NewsTrust admits errors over dispute with chair
A hospital trust whose chair quit after publicly raising serious concerns about the chief executive has admitted shortcomings in how it handled the situation.
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NewsFormer college president made interim trust chief
England’s first ambulance trust chief paramedic and quality officer has been appointed as the interim chief executive at South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.