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Blackpool chief executive on loan to South Manchester
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals foundation trust chief executive Julian Hartley is to run University Hospital of South Manchester foundation trust for two and a half months.
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HSJ Knowledge
Management coaching: down to the crossroads
A multi-agency worker felt her confidence going to pieces. Could coaching give her a new direction? Isobel Gowan explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Management styles: the leader of the pack
Are you an architect or an implementer? Esther Cameron and Mike Green describe five styles of leading
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving stroke care: fast thinking
Despite being one of the country's biggest killers and the largest cause of disability, stroke only recently gained a national strategy. Now the drive for faster intervention is giving it a much needed boost. Jennifer Taylor reports
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SHA chief Margaret Edwards to lead productivity unit
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, has left to head up a new national NHS productivity unit.She has agreed to lead the unit, set up by NHS chief executive David Nicholson and based in NHS London, and will start as national director of ...
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Monitor picks chief executive for Mid Staffordshire
Monitor has picked an interim chief executive for Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Margaret Edwards leaves Yorkshire and the Humber SHA
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, is leaving her post, HSJ can reveal.Ms Edwards became chief executive of the SHA when it was formed in 2006.
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Stephen Eames on the new NHS leadership
I recently read some research comparing performance between NHS hospitals and UK private sector hospitals and industrial companies.
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NHS is a 'brutal' place for its leaders
The NHS is a “brutal” and “arbitrary” system in which to be a chief executive, according to leaders interviewed by the NHS Confederation.Its report, Reforming Leadership Development… Again, examines whythis area is reformed so often. Health minister Lord Darzi’s leadership proposals in his next stage review are the fourth reorganisation ...
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NHS chiefs forced to defend Agenda for Change
MPs have attacked health chiefs for failing to ensure Agenda for Change delivered promised gains in staff productivity.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS career coaching: take control
Feeling downtrodden after a bruising divorce and unappreciated at work, one manager turned to coach Dorothy Larios to regain control of her life
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Comment
Jenny Rogers on NHS whistleblowing dilemmas
When talk turns to whistleblowing in the public sector, and how organisations can make it easier for the whistle to be heard, the solution usually suggested is a whistleblowing policy.
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HSJ Knowledge
Team coaching: strategy for success
With little sense of purpose, one team was struggling to get anything done. Coach Sheila Williams explains how she helped
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Trust must pay £430,000 to wrongly sacked surgeon
An acute trust has been criticised for using the wrong procedures to suspend and sack a consultant.
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Barts and the London appoints interim chief executive
Peter Morris has been appointed as interim chief executive of Barts and the London trust.
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Leader
Confed chief's challenge is to get network choir singing in harmony
In this week's HSJ new NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett spells out his vision for the organisation.
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Noel Plumridge on the grim reality of NHS finance
'Look out, not up' is a phrase currently being muttered in the corridors of power at the Department of Health.
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Skills for Health urges NHS to increase apprenticeships
Trusts are being urged to offer more apprenticeships to stem soaring unemployment despite new figures showing places have risen by 34 per cent in a year.
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Steve Barnett aims to marshal NHS Confederation's network power
Ten months ago no one expected Steve Barnett to permanently replace Gill Morgan as chief executive of the NHS Confederation.