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MPs and the EU elections- could someone get serious?
Local and EU elections are being held on the 4th of June - but where are the manifestos dealing with important health or other issues? All political life seems to be handled the same way as strategy appears to be managed in the NHS, by political soundbite.
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Looking Out, Not Up
How do we know if we are getting it right? Is it meeting targets? The people who really know whether our services are good or bad are the people who receive them.
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BlogsLook, it’s a Darzi vision – in multicolour!
Roughly a year after the Darzi documents were published, it is time to look back. That process may be gratifying, inspiring or horrifying, but it will almost certainly be tedious.
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Retiring leadership
As a senior clinician approaches retirement, colleagues arrange little or even large gatherings to mark the occasion.
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Being Bold
In the current economic climate, cutting training budgets is an easy way to make savings, but is it really false economy?
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Fitter than a butcher's dog
I’ve been ill again. And what did I turn to? Flat pop, that’s what. And did it work? Too right it did. 24 hours later and I’m fitter than a butcher’s dog.
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BlogsCliquey, self-absorbed and weak? Hardly.
It’s hard when your commissioners say you’re cliquey, self-absorbed and weak in partnerships.
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BlogsThey're Goodfellas at the CQC
I wonder what the NHS will make of Baroness Young’s announcement that the Care Quality Commission wants to “do a number” on failing organisations. It’s the kind of shadowy threat you’d expect from a Martin Scorsese gangster rather than the chair of a public services regulator.
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BlogsChallenging Mediocrity
How do we know what makes a good leader? If we are to make a difference, then we have to be more than “good enough”.
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NHS news blog: Care Quality Commission will 'do a number' on weakest NHS performers
The chair of the Care Quality Commission has pledged to get tough with NHS and social care organisations languishing in the bottom 10 per cent of performance tables.
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NHS news blog: Baby P review reveals 'systemic failings' in NHS
Trusts have been urged to ensure they are meeting child protection standards in a report revealing “systemic failings” in the NHS’s treatment of Baby Peter.
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Use the files - save the child
As an increase in residential children’s homes is mooted, are we heading for a change? Inside Out argues it’s not before time.
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NHS news blog: PCTs spent £8.2m on suspended GPs in three years
Primary care trusts have spent at least £8.2m over the last three years paying 134 GPs who were suspended pending investigations into complaints about their conduct.
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NHS news blog: Surge in women consuming harmful amounts of alcohol
Guardian: Surge in women consuming harmful amounts of alcohol
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NHS news blog: Care Quality Commission completes its management team
The Care Quality Commission has filled the remaining director posts on its senior management team. The new appointments are:David Johnstone, director of operationsKylie Kendrick, director of organisation development and human resourcesJohn Lappin, director of finance and corporate servicesDirector of operations David Johnstone has been executive director of adult and community ...
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NHS news blog: SHA chief appointed as national flu director
North East strategic health authority chief executive Ian Dalton has been appointed to the new position of national director for NHS flu resilience.The appointment is a secondment from his position at the SHA, which will be temporarily filled by its director of finance and communications David Stout.Mr Dalton will report ...
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NHS news blog: Rising patient choice fails to improve NHS quality standards
One year after the introduction of free choice, early trends suggest some patients are using choice - but it is not yet driving up standards in hospitals.HSJ and the Picker Institute analysed hospital episode statistic data supplied by the NHS Information Centre for the first three quarters of 2008-09 and ...