All Blogs articles – Page 46
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Blogs'A shortage of doctors was producing “a pretty ghastly awful picture”'
It has always been wise to avoid involvement in medical manpower planning.
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Competence, trust and the making of leaders
Interesting news from the private sector. A recent study by Booz & Company stated that nearly half (46%) of all senior managers surveyed doubted their chief executive’s capacity to navigate their organisation through the current economic crisis.
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Born on the 25th of July
The world’s first “test tube baby”, Louise Brown, was born shortly before midnight in Oldham and District General Hospital on 25 July 1978.
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To coach or not to coach…
There’s many different forms of coaching, from the informal, “water cooler” conversation, through manager coaching to more formal internal or external coaching. Coaching as a style of management is now accepted as effective, but there is a growing trend towards formal coaching, because of the growing evidence of its ...
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Partnerships - the Emperor's new clothes
What cost partnerships? Will the Tories bite the bullet and save us a bundle?
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Change agents for quality and productivity
If we look globally at those healthcare systems that deliver outstanding performance in cost and quality, a common characteristic is a systematic approach to capability building for improvement. How do we build this in the NHS?
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Mapping swine flu
As an experiment I have mapped swine flu figures for primary care trusts in the North East.
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BlogsDarzi's resignation
Lord Darzi’s resignation brings to an end a bold experiment in reconnecting the health service with staff and the public.
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Mental Health Diet
The power of positive thinking – is your glass half full or half empty? You can choose your mood, and control your state of mind to improve outcomes for yourself and those around you. Is this just so much mumbo-jumbo, or is there something in it?
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PbR: A target by any other name...
PbR as an abbreviation now lends itself to a much clearer redefinition for the providers of healthcare services in NHS England – ‘Patients bring Revenue’.
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Innovation for higher quality and lower costs
At no other time in its history has the NHS needed innovation for service delivery as badly as it does now. But innovation won’t just happen, even if we give it a high strategic priority. We need to take a systematic approach to innovation practice, building it into every aspect ...
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Stock up on painkillers. The Tories are coming.
What will a new government mean for the health service? Hmmm, let me think….
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Change tracking with Andy Burnham
A slip up at the Department of Health reminds us of the Microsoft Word “track changes” function - and reveals a last-minute omission from the health secretary’s swine flu speech.
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The future of nursing and midwifery
As a commission looks at what skills and competencies nurses and midwives need for the future, Martha Lane Fox tells the NHS what it was like to be on the receiving end of the NHS following a major accident. Do nurses need a degree? What makes a good nurse? And ...
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BlogsSupping with a long spoon
A new Cabinet sub-committee will lift the barriers to third sector delivery of public services. The sector will need to learn new ways of influencing that retain its independence whilst making sure users of services and patients get the right services when and where they need them.
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It’s adapt or die for the quality improvement movement
-The healthcare quality improvement movement needs to step up to the challenge of cost constraint. It’s an “adapt or die” situation.
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Britnellmania
It’s Mark I’m talking about. Our Mark. Our Mark who has crossed to the dark side and is with us no more.
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Swine flu but still no flu plan! Is this World Class planning?
Swine flu has arrived in my area! I know this because two patients, contacts with swab-proven swine flu, phoned for advice. We have received flu packs but no local plan: no instructions on managing contacts or accessing Tamiflu supplies - and no information that swine flu was around locally.