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Your flight has been cancelled (by your employer)
When staff shortages mean organisations cancel their employees’ holidays, there are bound to be issues with people management.
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Bridging the financial gap
The challenge of reducing spend continues and managers are looking ever more creatively at how to reduce the bottom line. I think I may have found a solution!
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Latest waiting times, trust by trust
A detailed look at the May 2011 RTT waiting times, at specialty and Trust level.
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Latest on RTT waiting times - the May 2011 data is out
RTT waiting times in England improved again in May. But you wouldn’t know it from the media. Or even the Department of Health.
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Go Red Sox
Reflections as my year as a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow 2010-2011 draws to a close..
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Waiting times improve again in May - England RTT stats released today
English RTT waiting times improved again in May
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'Beyond samosas and reggae' - or, developing services with equal opportunities
A short note recognising the equality campaigning by Nasa Begum.
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The difference between what is said, and what is meant
Language is important to get right - there is often a difference between words said, and meaning implied. Between the lines is where the truth lies…
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DH sweeps long-waits under the carpet
Surely the deputy chief executive of the NHS in England cannot be encouraging Trusts to sweep their long-waiters under the carpet and ignore them?
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Nuffield Trust website relaunches
The think tank relaunches its website and adds new tools for the online audience.
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Learning lessons from north of the border
The Scots have repeated England’s mistakes in setting their waiting time targets. But they still have a trick up their sleeve that England could learn from.
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The great care divide
Funding for care, particularly older person’s care, is high on the agenda, and new proposals have divided opinion.
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Why you should keep the 'smiling assassins' in HR on your side
HR get a lot of criticism from staff and managers alike. But they function in the best interests of the organisation, not individuals or groups of employees, so it may be wiser to keep them onside than wage war.
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The government needs to listen harder if it wants to hear patient voices
The Future Forum should have heralded the end of an era where patients found themselves on the outside, looking in.
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Crime doesn't pay... but it might get you free healthcare
It sounds like a joke or a wind-up, but losing private healthcare is no laughing matter.
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Time to change: challenging the stigma around mental health
The latest survey on the public attitude to mental health shows some encouraging figures, but also highlights how prevalent ignorance and fear toward mental illness remains. There is, says Sean Duggan, still some way to go in tackling mental health stigma.
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Latest waiting times - a closer look
The latest waiting times data, drilling down to Trust level; what's up and what's down
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English waiting times improve in April
Longwaits went down in April, continuing the recovery after the winter.
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A short course in leadership
What is leadership all about, and how can you learn to be a better leader. Do you need to go on a course, read a book, or what?