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NewsLondon names 'inner cabinet' PCT chiefs
NHS London has named the six primary care trust chief executives who will lead commissioning and performance management of hospital services for the whole city.
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LeaderNow stress levels are down, take the time to talk to staff
The results of this year’s staff survey give managers - and the rest of the NHS - much to feel proud of and some obvious areas for improvement.
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LeaderNo excuses in this new era of regulation
With the Care Quality Commission going live next Wednesday, the Healthcare Commission has published a swathe of reports before its demise.
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NewsWho let standards fall so low at Mid Staffordshire?
A damning Healthcare Commission review of emergency care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust last week found that money was put before patient care. Dave West investigates what went wrong
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NHS staff survey: leaders must make local vision more real to staff
Managers have been called on to demonstrate how they act on staff feedback after a survey found fewer than half of employees felt trusts communicated with them clearly.
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NewsDH told to take lead on race equality
The Department of Health has been urged to take a stronger lead on race equality after the Healthcare Commission found “immediate action” is needed.
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CommunityMedia Watch: credit crunch scapegoat
Now bank chiefs have been sufficiently humiliated in the press, the media’s attention seems to be turning to a new credit crunch scapegoat: NHS managers.
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CommentSimon Stevens on influencing clinical decision making
Paradoxically one of the most important determinants of healthcare quality and efficiency is one that NHS managers can do very little to influence, in fact it is practically invisible to the managerial gaze: the quality of clinical decision making.
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HSJ KnowledgeBig break for the clinical coders
Improving coding is a priority for the NHS. Robin Gammon explains how one trust built and trained a dream team of coders
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CommentHelen Bevan on productive communities
I want to tell you about the learning emerging from Productive Community Services, which the NHS Institute will launch later this year.
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CommentYour Humble Servant on management training
‘We concluded that we would need Stalin’s ruthlessness, Patton’s brilliance, Machiavelli’s cunning and Robert Maxwell’s sophistry’
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CommentHow to use patient stories to inspire change in the NHS
The Academy for Large Scale Change is giving clinicians the skills they need to influence others and improve the quality of patient care in the NHS, writes David Levy
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CommentPaul Stanton on the dilemmas of NHS governance
This is the first of my articles that explicitly addresses executive as well as non-executive NHS board members.
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Clinical leadership meets The Apprentice
What can clinical leaders learn from reality TV programme The Apprentice? Ann Elliott finds out
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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Oxford college principal appointed Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals chair
Dame Fiona Caldicott has been appointed chairman of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust.
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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