All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 51
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CommentStill no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’
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Mid Staffs shows a foundation trust can go bust
Is it possible for trusts provide excellent care while staying within budget?
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Not sleeping your way to the top
Separating fact from fiction about senior managers and their lives away from work
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NHS England's self fulfilling policy
We at End Game know you’re terribly busy and don’t always have as much time as you would like to leaf through the latest 25 page drone-fest from NHS England.So we do it for you – and we were pleasantly surprised to find a little light relief tucked away in ...
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The Facebook metric
It’s hard to know if health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s performance is best assessed by his level of popularity, or whether his preferred measure of success is how obscure he can remain by keeping the NHS out of the news.If the latter is best, he seems to be doing very well ...
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CommentThe NHS must refind its bearings on regulation
Unreasonable performance measures and fear stifle FTs
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CommentHow Gandhi's words speak volumes to the NHS today
What can the NHS learn from Mahatma Gandhi’s key principles?
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Jeremy Hunt's first hand NHS experience
All the old cynics who dismissed ministers’ plans to spend time working on the NHS front line as a cheap and stupid publicity stunt were confounded this week by Jeremy Hunt.Reflecting on the time he spent on an accident and emergency department in Watford, the health secretary noted the “dramatic” ...
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Dogged display from Peedell poodle
The National Health Action Party, set up in response to last year’s Health Act, is going from strength to strength, End Game is pleased to report.First came their stunning by election performance in Eastleigh in February, where they won 392 votes, way out in front of the rest of the ...
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Nightmare on Harley Street
Unedifying news reaches End Game from Harley Street.It appears that the illustrious London thoroughfare has been the site of some rather unsavoury discoveries. The street is home to an array of medical clinics famous for charging loads of money to rich people who are unable to confront their own mortality ...
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CommentThe dialectic of foundation trust finances
Why the next FT accounts will be true works of beauty
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BlogsInnovation in healthcare: ‘There’s a way to do it better – find it’
Alexandra Norrish on the lessons the UK can learn from the US health system’s long tradition of innovation
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Senior management was ‘incompetent and reckless’
Blair McPherson on how we should judge managers
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CommentThe NHS must gear up to meet the challenge of workforce planning
Trusts should take a leaf from the car industry
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CommentWho is in charge of the new commissioning system?
We held a Twitter chat to discuss the issue
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BlogsPolitics and satisfaction with the NHS
To say the NHS is political is to state the obvious. But are the public’s views about the NHS shaped by, or linked to, identification with political parties?