All Blogs articles – Page 24
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First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham reflects on attempts to reconfigure services in the capital
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Winter pressures, week by week
Good planning and monitoring can reduce the risk of crises this winter. We look at a worked example of week-by-week interactive profiling for beds and waiting times.
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The blip is over: waiting times break new records
Waiting times resumed their downward trend, breaking new records for best-ever long-waits performance.
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Harassment has not gone away
The whole Jimmy Savile scandal has made people think about sexual harassment at work.The workplace has changed since the 70s and 80s and many people assumed that even if there is still a pay gap between men and women sexual harassment was a thing of the past, but it is ...
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C is for Culture - not Control
The new Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, should follow his decentralising instincts.
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The shocking truth about anonymous comments
You will often find on HSJ, and other professional publications, people responding to articles anonymously. Those who don’t put their names to their comments are invariably being rude, offensive or cynical.I am often shocked that professionals, or those who read professional journals, would express themselves in this way. I can’t ...
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Culture is as intangible as the air we breathe
Senior managers are fond of saying we need to change the culture of the organisation.They are saying it now in response to the introduction of commissioning and greater use of the private sector in the NHS. It has been repeatedly stated in local authorities as part of efficiency initiatives and ...
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NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
Absurd restrictions on FT income have at last been lifted
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Equal opportunities under the new CCGs
The first week in October is a landmark for the NHS.This is the week when the new NHS commissioning board takes on its new responsibilities.The board has a massive budget of £60bn, most of which will be given to clinical commissioning groups for them to plan and pay for their ...
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Innovation and the NHS: the health entrepreneurs’ view
HSJ talks to Zahid Latif, the Technology Strategy Board's head of healthcare about how the NHS can better embrace innovation
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On a mission to get tomorrow’s ideas today
HSJ has joined 20 of the UK’s brightest entrepreneur-led companies on the Future Health Mission to Boston
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Stampede for the exit
I am one of those people who says “I told you so”. The NHS Commissioning board has identified that it is struggling to find suitable people to fill its senior vacancies and there is a risk of posts remaining vacant.The NHS reforms have so far cut 18,000 senior posts. The ...
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Did she jump or was she pushed?
There have been a number of women resign from the Civil Service recently.
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Your 18 week waits: July 2012 data
All the local detail on 18 week waits: full specialty-level analysis by Trust and PCT, and interactive maps showing where the longest-waiters and highest levels of clock pausing are.
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Waiting times tread water
18-week waits didn't improve in July. Nor did they get markedly worse. It's probably still just a seasonal blip.
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How to be successful at interview
We were in a hotel bar the night before the interview, me, the three other shortlisted candidates and the recruitment consultant.
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The local detail on clock pauses
The local detail on clock pauses, by specialty, by Trust and PCT.
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The new minister's agenda
The new group of ministers at the Department of Health will have a lot to take in as they begin work at Richmond House.
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Pausing for effect: clock pauses and waiting times targets
Clock pauses - they don't make a massive difference to waiting times. Do they? Um, perhaps you'd better sit down...
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Un-learning leadership in the NHS
The traditional view of leadership is a charismatic individual who - by sheer force of personality and will - drives through change and makes things happen; a heroic figure.