All Leadership articles – Page 189
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HSJ Knowledge
The new reality for whistleblowing over poor quality care
The GMC’s new guidance documents give clarification on a doctor’s duties and address concerns over acting on issues of patient safety. Lisa Jones explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
Time to change: how leaders can help inspire round the clock care
The fundamental basis for nursing practice should be the concept of hourly rounding, rather than just another “thing” for nurses to do, says Marie Hutchings.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why clinical commissioners will be in search of a new approach
It has become clear that a new kind of commissioning will be needed to meet the many challenges ahead, say David Colin-Thomé and Georgina Craig.
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HSJ Knowledge
How trusts are getting smarter about business intelligence
In our first monthly examination of the state of key healthcare support services, Daloni Carlisle finds many trusts are upgrading their business intelligence systems.
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News
Exclusive: many experienced commissioners predicted to leave
A significant number of the most senior primary care trust leaders will not join the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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News
Exclusive: CCG leaders to be assessed on 'aptitude and attitude'
Prospective clinical commissioning group leaders are to be assessed for “aptitude and attitude” in the next two months.
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News
Exclusive: over 60 per cent of CCGs choose PCT manager as their leader
Most clinical commissioning groups are set to make a manager their accountable officer, and are choosing primary care trust staff to fill key leadership roles in their organisation.
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News
Most powerful NHS trust chief executive quits
One of the NHS’s most prominent chief executives is leaving to take up a job in Australia.
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HSJ Local
Monitor wanted James Paget interim chief in place sooner
WORKFORCE: Monitor wanted an interim chief executive in place earlier than proposed at James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust, it has been revealed.
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Comment
Clare Gerada: just don't call me 'ballbreaker'
On why leadership is no longer a man’s domain.
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News
Commissioning board could take ownership of LIFT assets
The NHS Commissioning Board is expected to take ownership of the public stakes in many buildings built under a public-private partnership scheme, HSJ has learnt.
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Comment
Nick Seddon: healthcare reform's new dawn
Radical thinking from radical people is the only way forward if the health service is to thrive, says Nick Seddon.
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HSJ Knowledge
In this together: why clinically led commissioning will rely on collaboration
James Sorrowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds presents a compelling theory of how “collective wisdom shapes businesses, economies, societies and nations”. It is a philosophy that appears tailor-made for an evolving NHS.
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News
DH appoints three new director generals
Three new director generals have been appointed by the Department of Health, covering public health, external relations and group operations and assurance.
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News
'Command and control' management style leads to poor care
Poor care will ensue if managers impose a “command and control” culture that robs staff of authority to make decisions, a major report into the care of older people has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Do the right thing
Leaders must get to grips with equality if the NHS is to reflect the needs of a fast-changing population. We look at some of the tools available to help employers recruit a representative workforce
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Comment
'Failure is necessary to breed success'
In his book Adapt, economist and journalist Tim Harford argues that failure is a necessary stage in success, and that experimentation and risk-taking are more effective than an overarching grand plan. Jennifer Taylor explores how these ideas could be translated to the NHS.
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News
US private health firm cuts UK executive team
American private health company UnitedHealth has made 40 per cent of its UK executive team redundant as part of a “change in strategic priorities”, HSJ has learned.
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News
Trusts refusing to release doctors for leadership work
Doctors are struggling to gain permission from trusts to undertake nationally important policy and leadership work, according to senior medical figures.
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News
Senior NHS manager headcount falls 9 per cent
The number of senior managers working in the NHS has dropped nearly 9 per cent in one year, while nurse numbers have fallen 1.3 per cent, figures show.