All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 26
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HSJ PartnersWe are failing to meet the palliative care needs of BME communities
Barriers to care need to be torn down
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat have hospitals and a 1970 Morris Minor got in common?
McKinsey’s John Drew introduces a new series of videos on hospitals’ uphill struggle
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Blogs
Nicholson joins Twitter souvenir special
End Game stands shell shocked and trembling after having witnessed history in the making – an event whose significance is on a par with Britain joining the Common Market or Ringo joining the Beatles. Yes, we were there when one @DavidNichols0n joined Twitter.NHS England’s chief executive has used his unexpected ...
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Blogs
Boardroom battles take place in the shadows
It’s not the person having a row with you that you need to worry about, the plotters and schemers tend to do their work behind closed doors
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BlogsThe difficulty of living up to high expectations
“The challenges of taking over a leading trust”If you take over a failing trust - one in special measures - things can only improve, and if they improve significantly your career is made.If you take over one of the leading trusts, expectations are often unrealistically high. All it takes is ...
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Blogs
The revolution will not be trivialised
End Game has learned of an underground rebellion looking to sweep away the “old guard” and bring about a new order and a better NHS world for us all.This insidious group of “heretics and radicals” first caught our eye in the Twittersphere – particularly via the tweets of radical-in-chief Helen ...
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BlogsThe blurred lines around who you can appoint
The NHS is not democratically and locally accountable
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CommentHospital culture has changed due to Francis
The report may have started a new era of high quality care
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working
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BlogsTime to topple the kings of the castle
Borgen shows a model of leadership the opposite of NHS macho management.
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Blogs
Ministerial pedigree
End Game was impressed to discover that Norman Lamb is a descendent of the painter Henry Lamb, who was part of Sickert’s Camden Town group of post-impressionists.Thanks to a parliamentary question, we now know that the care services minister has a few of his ancestor’s works up on the wall ...
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Blogs
The blue badge test: when the director's job becomes impossible
It can show how an organisation deals with the most basic and simple request from a customer
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Blogs
Greenhorn Nicholson
The departing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has been accused of many, many things, but naivety has not been among them as far as End Game can recall.But perhaps he’s a more innocent soul than we thought.We learn that Sir David recently gave a speech to an audience ...
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Blogs
Particularly pleasing
The Sunday Times list of the most influential and inspiring people in healthcare, compiled in partnership with Debrett’s People of Today, made for interesting reading, we thought.There were a few notable absences from the list selected by an “expert panel”, with neither the current nor incoming chief executives of NHS ...
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