All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 40
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BlogsCareer advice: be opinionated, abrasive and intolerant
Seven tips for reaching the top of the tree in your profession
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Leadership is about taking responsibility
Leadership isn’t just about grand visions and great strategies or inspiring staff. Often leadership is simply about taking responsibility.
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A rich historical legacy
First Richard III’s body was found under a council car park, now Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has made a sensational discovery of equally historic proportions.End Game was astonished to receive a trust press release explaining how an £8m renovation project at Hull Royal Infirmary led to “a piece ...
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PCTs: forgotten forever?
End Game firmly believes that just because primary care trusts were bloodily sacrificed on the altar of clinical commissioning that doesn’t mean they should be forgotten.So we put in a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health asking how PCTs performed on their final year of quality, innovation ...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about John Ashton, and quite a lot more besides
End Game has been enjoying the Twitter account of John Ashton for some months, mainly because it allows us to answer the question “what happens when a senior figure broadcasts whatever is on his mind, without the slightest regard to his personal reputation?”Mr Ashton is president of the Faculty of ...
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BlogsOutpatient waits take the pain in Scotland
Scotland does well against its two main waiting times targets. So why are outpatient waits soaring?
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Working 9 to 5
More evidence arrives that commissioning support units are becoming ever more businessy in their working practices.Greater Manchester CSU sent End Game an email boasting that after just four and a half months of operation they had set up a new website.The site is graced with “a modern, colourful design and ...
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BlogsDon't listen at your peril
The weekend’s media was full of the leadership lessons from last week’s parliamentary debate on Syria. Perhaps the biggest lesson is about listening.
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For whom the whistle blows
There’s no doubt former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Gary Walker is a controversial figure. However, End Game wonders whether we’ve not fully appreciated the scale of his achievements.Tweeting ahead of a BBC programme he featured in recently, Mr Walker pondered whether “one person’s whistleblower is another’s enemy”. He ...
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CommentThe friends and family test can make the grade
Collection and analysis of the data must improve
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Kelsey Uncut: Tweet 'n' delete
End Game has been a fan of NHS England’s colourful national director for patients and information Tim Kelsey for some time - and his Twitter account in particular.The latest missives from what we like to think of as “Kelsey Uncut” were fired off after a privacy campaigner raised concerns around ...
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CommentLet's unlock the potential of NHS clinical leaders
New research sheds light on the role and attitudes of frontline clinical-managers
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CommentThe harsh impact of competitive tendering
The Health Act pushes us closer to the costly US model
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Only in America?
A gunman with a psychiatric disorder took a school librarian hostage after his Medicaid cover an out.
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CommentOld age is a lottery with too few winners
More people are struggling as they live longer into old age. We can’t go on like this
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CommentFoundation trusts can become global players
UK universities are a template for international success
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CommentMental health support is essential to crisis care
Urgent care services for physical and mental health are fragmented
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CommentCMO forges ahead, while tabloids make a hash of things
The Mail’s outrage at Sally Davies’ student days is out of touch