All Blogs articles – Page 36
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The blame game won't halt elderly care failings
I don’t blame the nurses. I don’t blame the hospital managers. I don’t even blame the budget cuts for the pain and suffering inflicted on elderly patients.
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Yet another opportunity to reinvent the acute hospital
In the new world an old challenge will quickly emerge driven by implementation of the reforms. Is it time for the acute hospital to be reinvented? The answer is an unequivocal yes.
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Hospital food is a recipe of contrary ingredients
When heart attack patients can tuck into a fry up the morning after a bypass, the health service needs to re-examine its position on hospital food.
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Taking action on workplace discrimination
Two prominent sports commentators persistently make sexist comments to colleagues and guests off air. Why didn’t someone do something?
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Explaining why candidates didn't get the job
“Why didn’t I get the job?” is a difficult question - but there’s an easy answer.
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Early intervention is rightly at the heart of new mental health strategy
The government’s new approach to mental health strategy is particularly welcome in its focus on children’s services.
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Voluntary groups shouldn't take funding for granted
It is only natural when deciding which voluntary groups’ budgets to cut to go for the ones that have the least popular support.
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'You're going home': improving the interview process
Interview days are usually so boring, something should be done to shake up the process.
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Customer knows best ... ?
Keeping the customer happy is important in US healthcare - but at what cost?
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Bill announcement sparks web comments frenzy
It isn’t every month that Health Service Journal gets to cover a newly announced Health and Social Care Bill.
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There's something fishy about all this change...
Ambitious managers are like sharks. They need to keep moving or they die.
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We will let you know by the weekend...
How do you prolong the torture that is ‘the interview process’?
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Equipping managers for an uncertain future
After savage budget cuts public sector organisations will look very different.They will require a very different type of manager.
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'She looked like she was on a big ride at Alton Towers'
The hospital porter was pulling the wheelchair at speed from the x-ray department to the ward. The elderly patient was tipped back in the chair, gripping the arms tightly, her face frozen in fear all she could see was the ceiling lights flashing past.
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'Pensioner crime wave challenges public sector leaders'
Where life means life, in the USA, the problem of elderly prisoners has been around for a long time but it is a relatively new feature of British prisons.
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Reforms offer best chance to change managerial culture
The Coalition's proposed reforms offer the best opportunity to change the managerial culture of the NHS but more so for providers than commissioners. Strengthening local leadership will always be limited because of the strong history of hierarchical management overlaid by political control.