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More Perspiration than Inspiration
We are entering a different phase of NHS management that to be successful will have to be characterised by a stronger emphasis on management than leadership, more process and communication, and more perspiration than inspiration.
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The One Hour Challenge
Have you physically walked a pathway from emergency or elective admission to discharge?
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'It was the nadir for the GPs, but they also had their supporters'
The Collings Report published in 1950 led some to feel general practice was past saving and not worth the effort.
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Personal health records continued
Following my frustrated experiments with personal health records last week, a south London GP has drawn my attention to another option.
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Sex, gardening and leadership
We can all articulate what we consider to be the essential characteristics of exemplary leaders; I am sure there would be some variation but I am equally sure that the similarities would beconsiderable.
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The bottom line
Patient involvement must not be lip service, a tick box exercise or a token gesture
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The Fear Factor
Managers in all NHS organisations need to overcome fears, we need the intuition to know when to ‘go against the flow’, we need to manage and take calculated risks and set stretching goals
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Logging on early
Buoyed by recent enthusiasm about personal health records, I’ve signed up for three.
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On organising to change the world: from Californian farm workers to Obama’s election campaign to NHS transformation - Part one
The ideas of Marshall Ganz, Harvard academic, community organiser and unofficial “Mobiliser-in-Chief” for Obama’s election campaign, offer some poweful perspectives for NHS leaders.
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The conundrum of personality driven leadership
The media has reported that the beleaguered Trevor Phillips is to remain as head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission after being criticised for his leadership style. This story highlights the conundrum of personality-driven leadership.
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Mapping swine flu part two: The professionals
Following my stunted effort a few weeks ago, the professionals have got stuck in to mapping swine flu.
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Leadership and getting the right people on the bus
If the wrong people are on the bus they should be dropped off at the next stop, they might need to catch a different bus.
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BlogsPowerpoint presentations
“Beware of anyone who says that they're "just going to talk to some slides" - because that's exactly what they'll do - without realising that they're spending most of their time with their backs to the audience.” So says Max Atkinson, author of “Speech making and Presentations made easy”, in ...
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Burnham's views on centralism
National newspaper articles citing health secretary Andy Burnham and Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes raise intriguing questions about the government’sattitude to foundation trusts.
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Hannan's claims about managers: the unblinking truth
The web is awash with commentary on Daniel Hannan’s incendiary comments on the NHS, thanks to the Twitter army.
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Talent Management
How can we recruit and retain the very best people for the NHS? David Nicholson said in the foreword to “Inspiring leaders; leadership for quality” that it was imperative to align work on leadership with achievement on quality. He describes it as “Leadership with a purpose”. So how to ...
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Boards, micromanagement and failure
‘I think people who fail, fail because they’re not involved enough’. So said Sir Martin Sorrel of communications group WPP last month when discussing micromanagement. It’s an interesting dichotomy isn’t it?
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'Wherever there was social disparity, there was disparity in health'
August 1980 will forever be remembered by public health doctors for it was then that the Department of Health published the Black report.