All Your Humble Servant articles – Page 6
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Your Humble Servant: the Confed conference
'The highlight will of course be Nigel and Gill doing the I'm More Important Than You foxtrot'
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Your Humble Servant: future imperfect
‘MRSA is discovered to have hidden properties which eliminate the H5N1 avian flu virus and patients now choose hospitals with high bacteraemia rates’
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Your Humble Servant: dead man walking
‘It’s difficult to know who to ingratiate yourself with, which policies might survive and which we should backpedal on.’
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Your Humble Servant: life on Mars
‘The ambulance would be at least an hour and that they should do what first aid they could until the paramedics arrived’
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Your Humble Servant: quiz night conundrum
You will no doubt carry off your duties of quiz master with your usual aplomb, entertaining the audience with mock looks of surprise as you reveal the answers.
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Your Humble Servant: disaster planning
‘Four black Mercedes limousines with police outriders screeched to a halt outside trust HQ heralding the arrival of the McKashsky consultants’
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Your Humble Servant: a primary care-bled NHS
‘Life carries on without GPs. In fact it’s a lot simpler’
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Your Humble Servant: say hello to the new boss
'He is also an inspiration in separating bonuses from performance, exposing incompetent auditors who have overlooked some of his imaginative enterprises, and spending vast sums on management consultants.'
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Your Humble Servant: grand theft NHS
Dear Don‘Bullies who threaten NHS staff will be shown the red card’ press release from the DoH finally confirms what we have suspected since February.
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Your Humble Servant: how do you solve a problem like Patricia...?
To: Don Wise, chief executive
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Your Humble Servant: non-executive joy
‘As for selection processes, we still can’t fathom them. It used to be so simple: either failed politicians found a way to boost their pension or successful ones got their wives out of the way a few days a month’.
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Your Humble Servant: regime change
‘We need to start stockpiling resources for a long fight now. We have started buying up poster sites and newspaper advertising space to deny it to the opposition.’
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Your Humble Servant: washing your hands of it
‘Pathology will be exported to Belgium, mental health will now fall under the council’s community support officers and treated with ASBOs.’