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Hospitals must speak with a louder voice, says Dr Mark Newbold
Much has changed in the hospital sector in recent years. Hospitals are more open in the way they do business, regulation has increased significantly, access times have fallen dramatically,...
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The twittersphere should recognise the brilliant work of NHS managers, says...
I love Twitter. It’s a fantastic way of listening to the debate and discussion surrounding the NHS – the financial challenge, the need for service change, the implications of innovation and the...
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Without trust, we will fall, says Clare Gerada
We find ourselves in testing times. Challenges of all kinds are no stranger to us, tough decisions are our daily portion and tricky waters undoubtedly await us. The Francis report cast a bright...
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Nurses aren’t ‘just a pair of hands’, but expert leaders in a patient’s...
The nursing profession is facing exceptionally difficult times. Deep cuts to frontline services, continued attacks on terms and conditions and an unrelenting degree of media scrutiny are all taking...
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Strong leadership and inclusive engagement are what drive improvements with...
At times of significant change, strong leadership and engagement are vitally important. I know this first-hand as the chief nurse and clinical director of an organisation going through exceptional and...
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More change is required, says Sir Cyril Chantler, with leadership by doctors...
We are in trouble. A recent report from the Institute of Medicine in the USA showed that while America is the unhealthiest nation in the developed world in terms of life expectancy and amenable...
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Should hospitals move off ‘the mainframe’ and onto ‘the cloud’? asks Chris...
After my first post for NHS Voices predicted that hospitals were doomed, some of the Twitterati described it as “coming from cloud cuckoo land”. Perhaps they were not convinced that commissioners would...
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Sir David Nicholson sets out seven steps to ‘cultural heaven’
After what feels like ten years of the NHS and those with an interest in the NHS obsessing about structures and systems, culture is starting to get the profile it deserves. In fact, it is hard to read...
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Time for NHS boards to balance the books, says Dr Karen Castille
Basic maths tells me a number of things in the NHS don’t add up: our workforce is overwhelmingly female – around 80 per cent are women – but as you climb up the career ladder, the male-female ratio...
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Are leaders who procrastinate weak or wise, asks Dr Karen Castille
It‘s that time of year when we all frantically scurry to get our UK tax returns in on time. Like countless others, I had to contact Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs office with a last-minute query,...
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