A blogger’s farewell
This is my last blog for this page so I hope you’ll forgive a longer one than usual. Fortunately, my much wittier boss will be taking up the mantle shortly so you can continue to follow national progress on implementing …
NHS
Ill-treatment and wilful neglect: proposals for a new offence
Today, the Department of Health published proposals on how the new offence of ill-treatment or wilful neglect will operate. This takes forward an important recommendation from the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in …
Reflections on publication
Today we published the full response to the Francis Inquiry - Hard Truths - The Journey to Putting Patients First. I am writing this in the early hours of the morning, feeling excited, tired and sick with nerves at the …
On leadership and capability
The Francis Inquiry report highlighted the importance of “visible, receptive, insightful and outward looking” and effective leadership for a flourishing NHS. In this week’s guest blog, Jan Sobieraj, Managing Director at the NHS Leadership Academy, gives an update on all …
Guest blog – Jan Sobieraj, Managing Director at the NHS Leadership Academy
In the Government’s initial response to the Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Patients First and Foremost, the NHS Leadership Academy was cited as fulfilling the recommendation ‘for a leadership college, working with a range of …
My patient experience
Regular readers may have noticed the blog falling silent for a while, perhaps assuming that I’d gone off the idea or had simply been too busy. In fact, I’ve been having emergency surgery for an infected appendix – a surprisingly …
On trusts and trust
‘Outstanding care, Transforming lives’ is the aim of the trust I’ve been based in this week, emblazoned on every screen saver. I’m observing a range of services for people with serious and often enduring mental health issues. Two headlines really …
Rebuilding trust
Guest blog by Sue Covill, Director of Employment Services at NHS Employers Do you remember years ago when as a rite of passage new student nurses used to be sent to the orthopaedic ward for a "long wait"? Many of …
Aiming for the safest health care system in the world
I’ve just got back from a week’s holiday with friends in Somerset and am struck once again by the huge amount of work underway across the NHS, social care and the voluntary sector in responding to the call for safer, …
Making care better for patients
Guest blog by Jocelyn Cornwell, Director of The Point of Care Foundation I doubt it has escaped your notice that Bruce Keogh and Don Berwick are basically saying the same things as Robert Francis. All three say: Put patients first; …
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