All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 34
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Blogs
Vote of confidence
Complaints, as we all know, are taken extremely seriously in the NHS as they are a valuable and cherished source of information from the people who matter most.So we were intrigued to read the Department of Health’s latest report on complaints it has dealt with over the past few years.In ...
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Blogs
Absolute gibberish
End Game will normally rush to defend ministers against accusations that they inhabit a mad parallel universe, but we did have to concede the carpers might have a point when we read a recent Department of Health diary of forthcoming press events.There were the usual speeches at worthy events, but ...
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Blogs
Halloween is over, so stop the witch hunt
Calls to introduce laws for prosecuting people for failing to report abuses misses the point – people in positions of authority are not being held accountable for cover-ups.
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Blogs
The C word
End Game realises that, broadly speaking, it is out of order to make observations about very successful women by reference to their husbands – or to intrude into family life (Press Complaints Commission code point 3, for media regulation fans).But we do feel the need to highlight one tweet by ...
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Blogs
Change the 'delay, deny, defend' complaints culture
A new report following the failings of Mid Staffs should force NHS organisations to confront patient complaints
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Blogs
Rite of passage
Congratulations to Julian Hartley, formerly of the NHS Improving Quality parish, on getting a real job as chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, where he began work on 14 October.As if the trust’s challenges – ahem, opportunities – were not sufficient, Mr Hartley received a baptism of fire when, ...
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CommentMental health under fire: is parity of esteem enough?
Government paper has not achieved its promise
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CommentMichael White: Hunt's plan halted by NHS nimbys
Hospital closures prompt too much shroud waving
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BlogsParliamentary cycle
End Game was pleased to see care and support minister Norman Lamb having such a lovely time in his constituency, modelling this weird bike/cross trainer hybrid.But we couldn’t help but notice that the machine was static. Should we take pedalling furiously and going absolutely nowhere as a visual metaphor for ...
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CommentCommunity trusts are invisible to politicians
End the preoccupation with all things hospital
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Blogs
News you can confuse
The appointment of Simon Stevens as NHS England chief executive was greeted with near-ubiquitous ecstasy in health policy world.However the mainstream media was more circumspect, perhaps unsure as to whether to paint him as modernising visionary or private sector villain.Thank goodness then for Top News, the international English language service, ...
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CommentPioneers can make person centred care a reality
Integration programme provides hope for better patient care
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CommentHospices need to change
Hospices can take the lead on meeting the needs of our growing ageing population
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Blogs
War on Jargon
This column’s protracted War on Jargon has often felt like a futile battle.But great warriors thrive in the face of adversity and evidence this week that new NHS “partner” organisations were introducing their own management piffle to our already linguistically sullied sector has only strengthened our resolve. The latest crime ...
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Comment'We need to get on with delivering changes'
The NHS lacks whole-scale care of elderly people