The mythbuster – Page 7
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The biggest problems in the NHS won’t be solved by more money
Beyond spending, baroque complexity and productivity issues must be addressed for effective NHS and infrastructure reform, emphasises Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Blaming people will not make the NHS safer
The majority of safety failures in the NHS are caused by bad systems not by malicious or incompetent staff, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Many healthcare interventions are wasteful, we just don’t know which ones
Steve Black says the NHS must become much more serious about data collection if it is to tackle unwarranted variation in healthcare and make better use of resources
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Managers are the real heroes of the NHS movie
The NHS seems to hold to a sort of Hollywood view of history where a handful of heroes solve the problem and the backroom bureaucrats or managers are an impediment to – not the foundation of – success, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: NHSE’s U-turn on winter planning
Steve Black explains how the NHS winter plan aims face a sceptical reaction due to past failures and insufficient measures
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS and management – a dysfunctional relationship
In the NHS, the general ‘management is a bad thing’ culture wants less management and doesn’t much care whether some managers are more useful than others, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Magic bullets won't save the NHS
NHS policy seems to be giving undue importance to genomics and AI as magic bullets without proper analysis, however, hype is not a good basis for policy, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Slaying zombies
Commentators and politicians should do their homework before polluting the arena with long dead zombie ideas about what is wrong with the NHS and how to fix it, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The birthday gift the NHS didn’t need
The NHS workforce plan doesn’t tackle any of the current major NHS problems, makes implausible assumptions and projections, ignores several factors and is designed to create wilful blindness about the most urgent NHS problems, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Incoherent and wishy-washy, two NHS studies that left me cold
Steve Black reports on two recent studies of the NHS which present contrasting viewpoints, with one lacking practical solutions and the other providing insights without concrete recommendations
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Positive thinking will not fix the NHS
Amanda Pritchard’s speech at the NHS Confederation was full of positive thinking, but empty of priorities, in contrast to a recent report that clearly spells out what ails the NHS and how to remedy it, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The growing evidence the NHS needs more managers
A new report shows that management shortages and penny-pinching on capital spending harm the NHS front line, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: A lack of financial discipline often leads to NHS deficits
Contrary to the popular view that government austerity often causes NHS deficits, the real culprit is the dearth of financial discipline in both hospitals and the Department of Health and Social Care, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Bad data = bad policy
The NHS should pay more attention to what is measured and the quality of data collection if its wants more effective policy making and service improvement, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The one-legged stool approach to policy making
Complex systems like the NHS can’t be improved with a blinkered approach that only pays attention to one input when all the inputs interact, sometimes in intricate ways, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHSE primary care plan is better than you think
Steve Black analyses the recently released NHSE plan to improve primary care, what is missing in the report and which significant initiative the media and GPs failed to highlight
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Focus, not collaboration, is the key to good strategy
Mirroring the concentration of a homeopathic medicine, NHS strategy lacks a good analysis-driven identification of problems and has a long list of ‘focus’ areas that wants to please everyone, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Calls for more NHS staff are often misleading and dangerous
Appeals to give better resources to the NHS ‘front line’ are problematic when they divert attention away from more serious issues, especially when spending on more staff comes at the price of investing in other areas where the money may have a greater impact, emphasises Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: 12-hour A&E waits kill – their abolition should be the priority
Now that NHSE has finally started publishing honest 12-hour A&E wait reports, they should rethink their improvement strategy to focus on eliminating them, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The biggest problems in primary care are poorly understood
Steve Black highlights three interconnected problems in primary care that rarely get the attention they deserve