All Off Diary articles – Page 2
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CommunityQIPP temper
If you thought KPMG impresario Mark Britnell would stay ultra chummy with NHS types to smooth the way for a future comeback, you’d be wrong.
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Twittering teeth
There is a notion that it is almost impossible to get on the list of an NHS dentist.
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Are Worcester nurses the bus of the joke?
Recent calls from the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery to update the image of modern nursing appear to have gone unheeded in Worcester. Every year there is a furore somewhere over a “saucy nurse” calendar. This time it is buses.
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The surgical checklist meets the IT crowd
Those wags at the IT geek website b3ta.com (End Game is reliably informed that is an play on the term “beta”, as in… oh never mind) have come up with a simpler surgical checklist, to replace the one developed by the World Health Organization and National Patient Safety Agency.
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CommunityMerron watch: fruit and veg
The ministerial diary is absolutely chocker at the moment as the DH rushes to publish every last report and scrap of policy knocking about the place before pre-election purdah strikes.
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CommunitySir Liam and the hunt for the golden hare
Maybe the chief medical officer spent his spare time at the beginning of the 1980s scouring Britain with a metal detector in search of buried treasure, or maybe one of the Department of Health’s designers did.
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Title fight
Some clear water emerged between the main parties at a recent social care roundtable discussion, hosted by The Princess Royal Trust for Carers.
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CommunityPolitical football
Don’t be fooled, this is not a picture of health secretary Andy Burnham and mayor of Wigan Mark Aldred auditioning to become the next Jedward.
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Yes, health minister
One of the great questions for any ambitious health leader is how to get a particular pet project approved by the Department of Health.
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CommunityMerron Watch: romantic notions
It’s time for Merron Watch - your weekly update on how everyone’s favourite public health minister is tackling the pressing issues of the day.
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CommunityAsk a stupid question...
Pharmacists spend a lot of time talking about coughs, colds and stomach upsets, but at Southampton General Hospital they deal with a more intriguing set of dilemmas.
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CommunityGillian Merron: back for good?
After a mild lull, possibly due to a dance related injury, public health minister Gillian Merron is back.
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Ward to onboard
A firm that designs aircraft cabins has turned its attentions to the NHS, creating a recovery “lounge” that fits - or should that be that crams? - more beds in while requiring fewer nurses.
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CommunityCrushing blow
After speaking at a conference for trust chairs last week, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson invited questions from the floor, like a lamb to the slaughter.
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Chair scare
East of England managers watch out - Monitor policy director Robert Harris is planning to take a hard line in his upcoming role as the strategic health authority’s director of commissioning.
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CommunityWeird corner
And the prize for weirdest press release of the week goes to… The Stroke Association, which has formed an unlikely partnership with “evergreen collectable toy brand” Sylvanian Families.
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CommunityBunker breath
When it comes to riding on the coattails of other people’s fame, the British Dental Health Foundation may have taken the biscuit this week.
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Flowers, chocolate, chlamydia
February is the month of romance, roses and, for one NHS region, chlamydia tests.
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CommunityDrug reactions
HSJ’s exclusive last week about “entrepreneurialism” at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust drew some interesting reactions.
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Exclusive fluff
Notice has dropped into the End Game inbox of an “exclusive interview” published with Care Quality Commission interim chair Dame Jo Williams.