All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 38
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Blogs
Stock punishment
We are pleased to report that Heatherwood Hospital’s fete went brilliantly and everyone had a jolly nice time - including Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust chief executive Philippa Slinger.This was despite her being put in the stocks and pelted with wet sponges.End Game has decided not to worry about ...
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Revolutionary measures
NHS England last week trumpeted that it had “launched a package of revolutionary measures to ensure the voices of patients, their carers and the public are at the centre of healthcare services”.“Transforming participation in health and care,” the media release continued, “is online guidance to commissioners that aims to put ...
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CommentMichael White: Government spin leaves NHS dizzy
Tory conference provides the politics but not the answers
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CommentKeep politics involved in the NHS
MPs play a crucial role in scrutinising and improving the NHS
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CommentCancer fund has proved its doubters wrong
The cancer drugs fund was met with scepticism – but it is working
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MP for barnet
Never let it be said that politicians don’t do anything during their endless summer breaks. Those attending the Liberal Democrat conference noticed that care services minister Norman Lamb has been very busy in recent weeks growing his barnet.Regular readers will doubtless remember that about a year ago End Game compared ...
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CommentLord Saatchi: The law is killing patients
Established practices fail both doctors and cancer patients
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CommentThe Care Bill is the wrong medicine for the NHS
Legislation is a bizarre and inadequate attempt to fix a spurious problem
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Bottomley's legacy
End Game has recently returned from the Labour Party conference in Brighton, where Andy Burnham wasn’t the only former health secretary exercising the comrades.Virginia Bottomley, who served as John Major’s health secretary during the 1990s, got a number of mentions. Current Richmond House incumbent Jeremy Hunt was variously described by ...
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BlogsYou don't want to know the answer
Managers are can choose to avoid bad news by not asking staff the right questions
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BlogsGive troubled trusts the right support to improve
When it comes to improving a trust’s performance, we must make sure we do not blur the lines of responsibility
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CommentPatient feedback is essential to the NHS's future
The friends and family test is helping to drive local improvements
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Trusts don't expect chief executives to stick around
High flyers will always move on to the next big job, but now trusts don’t even want them to be in post for long
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CommentMichael White: Labour homes in on 'whole person care'
Reintegrating health and housing has been proposed
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Blogs‘Look beyond the supermarket model for health services’
NHS commissioners should heed the experiences of other parts of the public sector to develop a health and social care model of commissioning
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Blogs
Champagne deception
Ministers’ celebrations to mark the NHS’s 65th birthday earlier this year reflected the tough financial times and were suitably free of razzmatazz. They unveiled some proposals to improve patient care and visited some provider trusts.However, private hospitals are less self-conscious about making a dent in the events budget.End Game was ...
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CommentPrimary care reform: culture must trump the rules
How the NHS can secure successful reform of primary care
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Disestablishmentarianism in the NHS
NHS trust documents are awash crimes against the English language – but rarely does health service nonsense jargon conjure religious imagery.
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CommentIntegration is the name of the game, but what does it mean?
Unravelling the integration code
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Scandinavian cool
End Game was delighted to receive an email from some agency or another on the state of the technology market on the continent.“Swedish enterprises are cautiously optimistic about their ICT spending”, thundered the headline.End Game was humbled by how utterly reasonable the sentiment was, and wonders whether there might be ...