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Blood service restructure should be stopped - Unite
Plans to restructure the blood transfusion service should be halted, health union Unite has said.
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LeaderManagers must fight to win back the trust of the public
As well as damaging the reputation of the NHS as a whole, the scandal of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust’s emergency services has piled more opprobrium on the reputation of NHS managers.
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Ali Mohammed on developing NHS leaders
I was talking to a peer from another trust who was moaning about the constant stream of central ‘good ideas’. In particular, she was confused about the proposed leadership council and top 250 programme.
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HSJ Knowledge
Performance management: parting ways with senior managers
Parting with an underperforming senior manager calls for careful procedures, advises Andrew Rowland
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DH denies claims of next stage review 'waffle'
The Department of Health has vigorously denied MPs’ claims that reforms in the next stage review amount to a long list of unranked priorities and “a lot of waffle”.
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Learning disabilities services miss local needs
Learning disabilities commissioners are failing to provide the leadership required to meet the needs of local populations, regulators have found.
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CommentJon Restell on a raw deal for NHS managers
This isn’t a detailed piece about Rose Gibb’s breach of contract claim against Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, but win or lose - I’m not sure there can be a draw - it again shows how poorly senior managers are held to account in the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat makes hospital ward staffing costs vary?
With ward staffing costs consuming over a third of the annual pay bill, trusts know how important it is to make the most of nursing resources.
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CommentEmma Dent on medics vs managers
On my twice daily bus journeys I am assailed by my fellow passengers’ trivial or personal mobile phone conversations. Many of these drive me to fantasise violence, if only to get a few minutes of peace.
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CommentAndrew Jones on a surgical safety innovation
Setting the quality objectives for a health and wellbeing organisation requires a focus on patient safety.
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CommentSafia Debar and David Colin-Thomé on the manager-clinician divide
A doctor and her mentor discuss the challenges facing clinical leaders
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CommentLisa Rodrigues on the media and clinical leadership
I’ve had one of those weeks. I was on the interview panel to appoint the chief executive of the NHS Confederation and within 24 hours we were the top story on BBC News at 10.How does one convey to the public that bad things sometimes happen? Particularly when they are ...
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Pilots open health boards to public candidates
Members of the public will have the chance to stand for election to health boards in Scotland from next year, after the Scottish Parliament passed the necessary legislation.
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Comment
Dignity in health and social care
Some simple practical steps can greatly improve patients’ experience of dignity. But the new quality accounts must recognise this if it is to be taken seriously by frontline staff
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NHS quality board members announced
The Department of Health has announced the 12 expert and lay members of the national quality board.
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Chief executives should publish expenses, says information commissioner
Chief executives and senior officers of NHS bodies should publish their expenses - including hospitality and hotel stays - as a matter of course, according to Scotland’s information commissioner.
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Trust chief 'should resign' over pay row, says union
Trade unionists have called for the resignation of a chief executive at a trust that spent £32,000 fighting a doomed legal battle over pay.
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Risks probe sees children's hospital chief quit
The chief executive of a children’s hospital accused of putting patients at risk has resigned ahead of a Healthcare Commission report.Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust said Paul O'Connor, who took the job in 2005, was leaving immediately.
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NHS job losses set to continue
The director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has warned that health service redundancies are likely to continue at their current rate of around 54 a month.
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Margaret Edwards quits SHA for central role
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber chief executive Margaret Edwards left her post suddenly last week to take on a new role driving efficiency across the NHS.