All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 50
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Hunt performs first u-turn
Speaking to clinical commissioning group leaders at a recent conference in London, Jeremy Hunt admitted he had made at least one about-face since taking over the role of health secretary.It turned out that, en route to the Tottenham Court Road venue, he’d gone in the wrong door and found himself ...
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Politics and the English language
End Game has been a fan of minister for laughs Anna Soubry maverick style ever since she arrived at Richmond House.She’s a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm and she’s peppered her latest interview with hearty profanity.Limbering up, she declared a builder’s sign to be “fucking useless” ...
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Absurdism and the CSU project
End Game will not hear it said that the new NHS commissioning system is exactly the same as the old one, except with less money and a few doctors getting in the way for the first year or so.Commissioning support units, for example, are nothing like anything that existed in ...
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CommentMichael White: Hunt picks a fight with the nurses
Salvoes have been lobbed between ministers and the RCN
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The NHS is in real danger of being unaffordable
Health bodies are desperately trying to save money
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CommentThe friends and family test can work
The single question has not been received with universal rapture
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The new culture of openness in action
End Game was delighted to discover that as part of NHS England’s ongoing commitment to transparency, one of its senior managers has apparently started her own blog.It comes from Samantha Riley, the organisation’s director of insight. Title: “Samantha Riley’s Insight Blog (Which is Hopefully Insightful!)”Yes, hopefully it is.Actually, End Game ...
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Could the 'Rooney rule' work in the public sector?
A look at how attitudes to race have changed in public sector recrutiment.
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CommentThatcher ducked the NHS fight, we have to face it
Thatcher’s handling of the NHS offers lessons for reformers
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CommentPodcast: Medicines optimisation in the new NHS
Charles Alessi and Malcolm Qualie discuss how to get the best out of the drugs budget
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Wicked whispers
Which outspoken advocate of accurate data turned up late to a seminar recently because they wrote down the wrong time?End Game would love to tell you, but the event was held under solemn Chatham House rule conditions.
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CommentThe NHS has its own currency crisis
The currencies that drive activity and behaviour in the NHS are rooted in the past
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Blogs
My trusty little revenue raiser
End Game is all for NHS hospitals diversifying as the squeeze on their traditional sources of income continues, but we’re starting to wonder just how far this is going to go.In a flurry of entrepreneurialism, Salisbury Foundation Trust has launched a line of moisturising creams, based on one used by ...
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CommentYour Humble Servant: Real life drama
“I could tell that a good cup of tea would save the situation.”
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Virtual public relations
Being a web-savvy lot, End Game readers will have heard of Second Life, the online role-playing game that was big in the giddy, wasteful days before the recession.For those who were doing other things, we will explain. The game allowed players to design an outlandish character (or “avatar”) and stroll ...
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CommentReclaiming the NHS employment relationship
We need to change the service’s employment culture
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CommentWhat happened to 'any qualified provider'?
AQP has been oddly absent from the competition debate