All Blogs articles – Page 47
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BlogsOne and twenty - a buttered scone and getting plenty: pension take up in bingo hall and tea bar
Tackling povety in old age
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Blogs'Fifty years passed before smoke-free public places were achieved'
On 26 June 1954 the main article in the British Medical Journal was on the mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits.
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BlogsNever miss a minister's verbal gymnastics
Is your life being ruined by missing health related items from the Today programme? Then I have the gadget for you.
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BlogsOn Arctic marathons and large scale change
Training to run an Arctic marathon has made me reflect on the psychology of large scale change.
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coaching scmoching
Let’s regulate coaching. Let’s make them pass exams and get certificates or ban them from practising. What the hell, let’s go the whole hog and give them a Royal College.
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BlogsMore than tea and sympathy
It’s not just tea and sympathy that’s on offer. Advocacy, empowerment, peer-to-peer support are all available at WRVS’ hospital cafés.
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number crunching leadership
Leading and managing by numbers - or how to find a set of theories, skills, disciplines, habits or principles to fit whatever your burning issue is today.
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Disney and the NHS
Should the NHS emulate the Disney Corporation? Can we learn from the giants in the service industries in how we deliver services, and is there a holy grail in getting it right?
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Cut down on stress, be nice to each other
Today I interviewed master of spin Alastair Campbell, who was speaking at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool.
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Have your say on the NHS - 'an election in less than a year'
The BBC news web page has a link to ‘have your say on the NHS’ this week; the NHS is back in the news as a political football.I don’t intend to add more to what has already been said by many on the BBC site. It is worth scanning through ...
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Lansley's sums
No matter how many times shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley repeats his pledge that there will be real terms growth in NHS spending under a Tory government, the NHS is not convinced.
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Trouble on the road to Confed
Travel to Confed conference from London was derailed by signalling faults.
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metamorphos-ising the metaphors
It’s about time we moved on from the patriarchal sporting metaphors of the playing fields of Eton and got a bit more now, a bit more edgy, a bit more credit crunch.
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Fear not: Tories are more afraid of you than you of them
Perhaps now is a good time to start asking what the Tories would do to the health service…
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The expenses scandal is heading your way
The media is starting to bring expenses run up by senior NHS staff under the spotlight