All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 36
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Campaigning journalism
End Game is delighted to trumpet an unequivocal campaigning journalism win!Last week we welcomed Incisive Health into health policy world. The new organisation, spun out of MHP Health Mandate, is led by three well known health policy luminaries including Health and Social Care Bill, aka Bill Morgan, End Game’s favourite ...
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Managers − always look on the bright side
Despite cuts to their budget, social services leaders appear to be relentlessly optimistic
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CommentTransform smaller hospitals, don’t close them
The 1962 hospital plan is still relevant today
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Are hospital chairs overreaching their role?
Powerful hospital chairs and non-executive directors can make chief executives redundant
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Dive! Dive! Dive!
A feat for fans of convoluted or plain worrying metaphors at this year’s Foundation Trust Network conference.Jeremy Hunt urged people to join the boards of troubled NHS organisations by citing the advert the explorer Shackleton is supposed to have placed in The Times.You know, the one with reference to danger, ...
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CommentGet the measure of what patients really want
Mobile technology can help improve the patient experience
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CommentCare Bill: Lords distracted by spiritual matters
The new law is having a bumpy ride through Parliament
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Blogs
Laser guided surgery
End Game was excited to read of a clever new cancer intervention being pioneered by University Hospital Birmingham.It’s called “CyberKnife”, but less scary than that sounds because it is actually a tiny beam of radiotherapy, and not a grudge-bearing robot with a blade.According to the blurb, “it uses technology similar ...
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CommentA brave NHS can make self-management possible
Empowering patients and their carers to make decisions
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CommentLord Saatchi is wrong, the law isn't killing patients
We need a better understanding of individual cancer patients
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Monitor's new home
Monitor! Dynamic, inspiring and unleashing the invisible golden hand of the market into fusty old healthcare!End Game’s favourite disruptive innovators have now largely moved from boring, civil servant-ridden Westminster to energetic, mould-breaking Waterloo.Round the back of the Old Vic and opposite a soup kitchen on Webber Street, since you ask.But ...
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CommentThe public's attitude to NHS reform is changing
Are there signs of a shift in public views of NHS service reform?
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Blogs
No one can provide quality care in 15 minutes
The increasing use of “pop in” calls by social services departments will make people who need care even more vulnerable
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CommentFuel poverty is a healthcare issue
Evidence shows the link between cold homes and ill health
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CommentThe NHS: An institution on life support?
Examining if the UK’s public services have lost their way
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Blogs
'Health and social care' Bill
We learn of tectonic movements in the exciting world of healthcare public affairs.Three consultants who developed and have recently left the successful MHP Health Mandate - Mike Birtwistle, Bill Morgan and Sarah Winstone – have formally launched their start-up rival, called Incisive Health.If Mr Morgan’s name rings a bell, he ...
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CommentStaff must be supported to put patient care first
The importance of listening to and supporting staff
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Blogs
Dirty work
NHS England chair Sir Malcolm Grant possesses many of the characteristics which allowed former BBC presenter Des Lynam to be widely viewed as the suavest man in public life for a good couple of decades.He’s well groomed, sports a dashing ‘tache and always shows a good half an inch of ...