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The mythbuster: Calls for more NHS staff are often misleading and dangerous

2023-05-02T02:47:00Z

Appeals to give better resources to the NHS ‘front line’ are problematic when they divert attention away from more serious issues, especially when spending on more staff comes at the price of investing in other areas where the money may have a greater impact, emphasises Steve Black

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The mythbuster: 12-hour A&E waits kill – their abolition should be the priority

2023-04-24T02:49:00Z

Now that NHSE has finally started publishing honest 12-hour A&E wait reports, they should rethink their improvement strategy to focus on eliminating them, writes Steve Black

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The mythbuster: The biggest problems in primary care are poorly understood

2023-04-17T03:05:00Z

Steve Black highlights three interconnected problems in primary care that rarely get the attention they deserve

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The mythbuster: The Hewitt report is more radical than you think

2023-04-11T04:13:00Z

There is already a large volume of commentary on the Hewitt report. So I’m not going to do a general review. But I want to highlight some of the more radical ideas in it. 

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The mythbuster: the NHS should target poor understanding, not performance

2023-04-03T02:24:00Z

Instead of trying to understand the causes of problems, the NHS performance management process demands lots of data which only achieves ‘the illusion of control’ in NHSE, writes Steve Black

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The mythbuster: How not to pay for NHS pay rises

2023-03-27T03:09:00Z

One of the most persistent problems in the NHS is that budgets for long-term improvement are regularly raided to cover short-term problems, writes Steve Black.

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The mythbuster: The NHS needs a productivity plan, not a workforce one

2023-03-20T04:44:00Z

The second in a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. Historic workforce plans have ignored productivity. Most discussion seems to assume that the plan must demand far more clinical staff to drive up NHS activity while ignoring other factors

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The mythbuster: The NHS leadership needs to stop thinking like the Russian army

2023-03-13T05:50:00Z

Introducing a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. In a single day the NHSE director of strategy claims that the system wants more autonomy for ICBs while defending strategic decisions that strip them of any capacity to be autonomous.