All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 52
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CommentHunt's hospital rating system threatens transparency
Why a ‘single version of the truth’ won’t work
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CommentMortality rates don't tell the whole story
This important debate needs an unfrenzied, non-political enviornment
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Blogs
After the transition, the anticlimax
The transition is complete – primary care trusts and strategic health authorities are dead, making way for a clinically led insurgency that will sweep through the NHS like a wildfire of transparency, patient-centredness and integrated working.So get ready! Or, if you live in Wigan, don’t.The town’s new commissioning group tweeted ...
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Blogs
A picture is worth 1,000 hours of consultation
End Game is fully supportive of the creative arts, and loves it when complex health policy is expressed in simple, visually appealing forms.So in theory we full approve of the whimsical cartoons that the Healthier Together reconfiguration programme’s Twitter account uses for its background.The programme is reviewing hospital services across ...
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BlogsNick Clegg or Nigel Farage: who should NHS leaders model themselves on?
NHS leaders need to decide whether to focus on what is in the best interests of their organisations, or be willing to share sovereignty and work with others.
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CommentSpanish intuition: lessons for a paperless NHS
The transition to paperless is possible and clinically essential
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BlogsThe English waiting list: not growing after all?
After adjusting for counting changes, it turns out the English waiting list might not be growing after all.
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A rising management star crashes and burns
Are managers being given too much credit for success and too much blame for failure?
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CommentThe NHS needs calm heads, not panic headlines
Alarmists say the NHS is a service sliding into chaos
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CommentWill the government’s response to Francis improve care?
More inspection may not improve quality
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CommentShould we worry about the health of NHS staff?
Noel Plumridge’s third dispatch from the stroke ward
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Blogs
Hunt, health and airlines – half right and half wrong?
We need a culture where staff feel empowered to act to mitigate risk and prevent avoidable harm without fear of recrimination and blame. It is time for a much more sophisticated debate, says Chris Hopson.
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CommentLessons from key leaders departing the NHS
Advice from a generation of NHS leaders for their successors
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Blogs
Health policy for young people
The long standing complaint that the central management of the NHS is no good at talking to ordinary people can finally be banished forever, End Game is thrilled to report.Someone has invented a learning tool that turns civil servant speak into young person speak.You type a web address into www.gizoogle.net ...
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High-level anger management
There’s nothing wrong with managers being angry about poor care, but they still need to be in control.
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What do NHS managers do?
An article on the BBC news site this weekend asked, “What does a pope do?” The same could apply to NHS managers, says Neil Goodwin.
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Blogs
The power of the political placebo
Are GPs prescribing placebos any more unethical than when politicians and managers talk about service closures?
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