A hip operation is like buying a cardigan
I’ve only just started following Roy Lilley’s nhsManagers.net email newsletter. I would recommend it. Interesting, sharply written and relevant. But I have to disagree with his latest column entitled, “Not like buying a cardigan”. In it he argues that difficulty in contacting your GP, bad hospital food, poor attitude of staff and collecting a hospital [...]
Cheating – no other way to stay within target
Polly Toynbee writes on The Guardian Comment Is Free website that she has been contacted by Carol, who tells of cheating waiting lists at an NHS Foundation trust. They have a target; they are bound to cheat. That is what people do. Carol told Polly that, She was told to cancel operations for anyone who [...]
NHS in ‘no man’s land’
I was fascinated to listen to Sue Slipman, Director of the Foundation Trust Network, when she said on The World at One, in regards to the hotly contested NHS bill that, “if there were no forward movement that the NHS would be in no man’s land.” This is because many of the provisions of the [...]
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