Comment archive – Page 369
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CommentKen Jarrold: Five ways to give feedback
Feedback is one of the most valuable gifts our colleagues can give us. To find someone who has the tact, courage and skill to tell you honestly how you are doing is a very rare thing indeed. In 36 years of full time work I had seven good appraisals.
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CommentThe social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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LeaderOur mission is clear: to help our readers
Last weekend the Mail on Sunday ran a full page article claiming an HSJ reporter (Sally Gainsbury) wrote a news story in the magazine as part of a Labour “sting” to undermine Conservative health policy.
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Pay freeze is warmer prospect than thousands of job losses
HSJ’s interviews with a panel of finance directors have begun to flush out where managers are planning to make savings as the financial noose tightens.
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CommentSimon Stevens: on lifestyles and living beyond 100
If all goes well, next month my wife’s grandma will turn 100. That is a birthday only around one in 5,000 of her peers will be around to celebrate. Not bad for a woman who, like millions of others, emigrated between the two world wars from eastern Europe to New ...
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CommentMichael White: on patient safety and savvy spending
I had an odd experience at the weekend. Reading the Commons health select committee’s depressing report on patient safety, I kept thinking of the more visible drama now being played out over public expenditure and pay.
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CommentMediawatch: swine flu... it could be you
We’ve all got guilty pleasures that are bad for our health and this week there is another one to add to the list.
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CommentAndy McKeon: saving £15bn-£20bn will be no summer holiday
This summer senior NHS managers have been set a problem they will still be studying for months ahead - how to save £15bn-£20bn over three years from 2011.
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CommentSheila Williams on to coach or not to coach
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s 2008 survey of learning and development reported an increase in the use of coaching - not just for senior managers and directors, but for all employees.
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CommentDoes my daughter have swine flu?
It’s been a tough month for my 12-year-old; she dislocated an elbow on an activity trip, was involved in a car accident, and then, last Friday, went down with suspected swine flu.
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CommentHelping GPs help patients: NICE's role
There’s more NICE can do to help doctors help patients, writes Simon Fradd
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CommentClinicians and managers - shedding some light on the dark side
What is it really like for clinicians who become managers in the NHS? Mark Johnston and Yasmin Ahmed-Little take a closer look
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Monitor and CQC must co-ordinate, not duplicate
Is the foundation trust regulator Monitor becoming isolationist?
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LeaderTargets’ rebirth as NHS constitution rights will not ensure a cultural shift
Labour claims it is planning another healthcare revolution.
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CommentJon Restell: how to cope
The ever rolling aftermath of the credit crunch – a new angle every day – makes horizon scanning a full time job. For those who only have time for a quick look up from the grindstone, I list the main trouble spots, as I see them, and some suggestions on ...
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CommentPaul Corrigan: the future of foundation trusts
The biggest clash between NHS culture and strategy continues to be found around foundation trusts.
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CommentMichael Jackson brings out the celebrity in all of us
In these digital times, it was interesting to watch the way the news of Michael Jackson’s death broke online and then spread through the more traditional news media.
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CommentMichael White: on Bercow, the Autism Bill and politicians doing good
You must have read some horrid things about John Bercow, newly elected Tory Speaker of the Commons: egotistical and pushy for starters. So let me use a new piece of health-related legislation to try to persuade you to keep an open mind until we can all see how he does.
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CommentJohn McGowan: the truth about markets
It is an article of faith among former 1980s undergraduates like me, particularly in the pub, that Labour has gone far further than the Tories ever did in imposing business values on the long suffering NHS.
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CommentNicky Spencer on aspiring to leadership
July brings us a further step forward in the delivery of Inspiring Leaders, the regional leadership plans.