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Scotland's backlog still growing
Scotland is growing a waiting list backlog, despite the new RTT waiting times target. Will the new Treatment Time Guarantee solve the problem?
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No U in team
You don’t have to be a cricket fan to recognise the situation: your best player - who thinks he can do a better job of running the team - is bad mouthing you and his team mates to the opposition. Clearly this is not good for team spirit. However it ...
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Improving the health of the poorest, fastest: why clusters of lifestyle behaviours matter
When the coalition came to power I, like many others, was nervous about whether the government would see inequality reduction as one of its core aims.
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Your 18 week waits: June 2012 data
Interactive maps and resources with detailed analysis of the 18-week pressures by Trust and PCT, by specialty.
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18-week performance slips in England
18-weeks performance slipped back slightly in England, on the latest (June) figures. Probably just a blip.
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Do extroverts perform better at interview or do they just think they do?
The interview process seems designed to favour the extrovert
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50 Shades of management
What is a management restructuring but a way of gently but firmly forcing you to adopt a new position, testing your flexibility and willingness to please?
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Candy coated cartels, fear and loathing - is there a better way forward?
How might policymakers, regulators and healthcare leaders work constructively to produce an informed and proportionate competition regime applied to the NHS?
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Olympic Legacy
As Danny Boyle has higlighted, the NHS is one of our great institutions, one to be out centre stage as we open the Olympics. So much great effort and focus is going into the preparation and smooth running of the Olympics and the health response. Let us ensure that there ...
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FIlling the void
Ignore the harbingers of doom; clinical leaders, by driving value and putting patients first, can not only address the challenges we face but lead healthcare towards a better future.
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Genuine 'co-production' now needs 'coming together'
A framework to help local organisations to deliver on the objectives of the Government’s mental health strategy for England is published this week.
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Your 18 week waits: May 2012
Interactive maps and resources with detailed analysis of the 18-week pressures by Trust and PCT, by specialty.
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Is trust really the be all and end all of leading?
You can’t be an effective leader if you don’t have the trust of your peers and the public.
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18-week waits still improving
18-week waits continued to improve, but large reductions in long-waiters were offset by some relaxation in services that are already achieving the target.
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Will new waiting time records be broken?
In Thursday’s figures, will the number of long-waiting patients being admitted finally fall below the general election level? It looks like it will.
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A mandate for bad waiting list management
The draft NHS Mandate will drive up waiting times, undermine the NHS Constitution, and be unfair to patients. Not what was intended, obviously.
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Accountable care organisations: revolution or business as usual?
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act in the US could have wide ranging implications for the future of healthcare. Or could it?
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Wider lessons from Imperial's long waits
How can we make the NHS more resilient against the risk of waiting times failures?
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Lessons to learn from Barclays
Bob Diamond appears to have seen nothing, heard nothing or known nothing. So said the Treasury Select Committee. But is it possible for chief executives to know everything that is going on in their organisation? Clearly not, but they do need to know what they should know.
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A death in a hostel
A personal account of managing a home for “difficult” elderly male patients.