All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 37
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CommentAusterity kills – we must invest
Cutting back on health and social care is costing lives and money
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Blogs
Minister for innuendo
End Game was saddened – well, ruddy gutted if we’re honest – to learn of the departure of Anna Soubry from our lives.After just a year of saying whatever came into her head about public health, prime minister David Cameron was so impressed that he moved her to the even ...
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CommentPatient data: finding the right balance
Striking the right balance between the protection and use of patient data
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CommentBurnham's survival is the key move in the reshuffle
Shadow health secretary will be an important player in next election
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Blogs
I don’t need to go to hospital, I just need to go home to bed
Sometimes the patient knows best.
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CommentNew principles for planning patient care
Help us to make person centred, coordinated care a reality
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Blogs
He likes to boogie
It sounds like Sir Malcolm Grant’s leaving bash, to mark his departure as University College London provost, was a night to remember.Local hacks reported that the NHS England chair spent the evening last June boogieing to Bjorn Again – the world’s premier Abba tribute band. They were supported by some ...
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CommentHealthy teams lead to healthy cultures
The time is right for rapid cultural change across the NHS workforce
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Blogs
Blackberry Cumberlege
End Game was a little bit bemused to discover that Baroness Cumberlege – the former Tory health minister who holds paid positions at the King’s Fund, KPMG and PWC – prefers blackberries to Black History Month.Bear with us, we realise that reads oddly. We were not aware that you had ...
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Blogs
Don’t 'unnecessarily' annoy the patients
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary is reminder of how public sector management used to be
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CommentWhy the ONS consultation matters to the NHS
Proposed cuts will impact those commissioning services
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BlogsWhat is the house of care?
There are significant benefits to focusing on patients’ goals and empowering them to take an active part in their own care, says Angela Coulter
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Blogs
Hunt for answers
Following his 10 minute row with pugnacious former Care Quality Commission chair Baroness Young at a Conservative conference fringe event, End Game could have forgiven Jeremy Hunt for going back to a darkened hotel room for a large brandy and a lie down.But credit where credit’s due, the health secretary ...
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Blogs
Lights, camera, cliche
Drumming up support for worthy causes is a good thing – but that doesn’t give PRs carte blanche to write complete twaddle.The press release promoting the 75th birthday of the British Polio Fellowship is a case in point.“Lights, camera, Polio, action!” parped the headline on the release which went on ...
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CommentThe friends and family test: a different view
How to recognise and fulfil the test’s potential
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CommentLisa Rodrigues: A very personal ‘personal best’
The FT chief executive makes an important announcement
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Blogs
Running prize
End Game was delighted to see the famous runner Clive Peedell at the recent HSJ Efficiency Awards in London.He was being honoured with a gong for devising a time-saving route from Nye Bevan’s birthplace to Jeremy Hunt’s constituency (or something). Inevitably, the co-leader of the National Health Action Party, who ...