External contributors – Page 266
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Steve Onyett on NHS interdependence
It is not unusual to find teams and their managers entangled in a cruel bind. Senior management conveys the absolute requirement to increase caseload sizes to meet an activity target.
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Maggie Rae on giving blood and glory
Yes, it is my fault - I think I am to blame for our terrible weather over the summer. I supported the introduction of the national system to monitor the effects of excessive heat over the summer months.
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Mental health volunteering scheme has global ambitions
This World Mental Health Day, South London and Maudsley foundation trust is supporting a new initiative to encourage volunteering with VSO.
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Keith Pearson on releasing time to care for patients
The best health organisations in the world put patients at the heart of what they do. This is why the Releasing Time to Care programme is so important.
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Jon Restell on party conferences
The party conference season heralds the least productive element of my job. Attending them means - roughly - receptions, speaking at fringes, talking to anyone who will listen and eating too much and too richly.
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Media Watch: public health Jamie Oliver style
When a celebrity ventures into the inhospitable terrain of public health, the results tend to be predictably cringe-inducing.
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Michael White on the NHS and political miscalculations
With the global banking network near meltdown, we're all on a sharp learning curve. So here's a tip for David Cameron: don't use the distress of NHS patients such as the late Elizabeth Woods to make party-political points.
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Virginia Beardshaw on children's speech and language services
Child health has always been a minority interest in the NHS. And few managers have moved up the career ladder on the strength of their achievements in the niche field of children's speech and language.
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Mark Johnson on what Darzi means for NHS innovation
Lord Darzi's review puts quality at the heart of the NHS. This vision can only be achieved through new forms of partnership working between the public, private and third sectors.
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Clinical leadership in out of hours services
The Department of Health has signalled that it may allow practice-based commissioning consortiums to take over commissioning out of hours services. Rick Stern explains why this would be good for patients and budgets
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Linda Havard on changing the face of NHS leadership
Lord Darzi's next stage review talks about increasing clinical leadership in the NHS. By encouraging leaders to be practitioners, partners and leaders, he hopes to drive through the quality agenda.
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David Lee on foundation trust constitutions
In 1968 John Lennon wrote this lyric in the song Revolution: 'You say you'll change the constitutionƒ we all want to change your head'. It is still relevant today.
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Jenny Rogers on personal responsibility
The kind of client that all executive coaches adore is the high flier who is totally up for learning: cheerful and realistic about themselves.
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Angela Greatley on mental health and the media
Much has been written about the media's handling of mental health issues. We know from countless studies that mass media in the UK and abroad focus disproportionately on violent acts committed by people with severe mental illnesses while rarely considering the lives people with a range of mental health conditions ...
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Your Humble Servant offers tips on avoiding meetings
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: If not now, when?
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Media Watch: cabinet reshuffle
What's in a name? Plenty according to the papers, which were this weekend reporting that a crop of senior ministers including health secretary Alan Johnson are determined to hang on to their titles in the event of a reshuffle.
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Michael White on Conservative healthcare policy
On the conference circuit this autumn I've been conscious of being generous in my remarks about the prospect of a Conservative government in regard to its policies on the NHS.
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Simon Stevens on health policy trends
Rather than attend this year's party conferences, I decided instead to take the temperature on US health reform at the two presidential nominating conventions.
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Andy McKeon on the good news about NHS finances
Finance managers in the NHS, do not adjust your sets. Yes, the picture really is much brighter than it used to be.
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Frank Burns on improving the patient experience
At the heart of Lord Darzi's next stage review is a commitment to deliver a step change in the quality of service provided to patients.