September 2022 - The Training Network

29/09/202229/09/2022Uncategorized

What you pay for

This has meant a large accounting switch from social care spending to health care spending

Like the unwelcome rumble of thunder, from distant hills, on a summer’s day… something’s coming. Like a call, on a landline, in […]

27/09/202227/09/2022Uncategorized

She cares

gratitude message for nurses with red hearts

The RCN has a problem. Nurses wages are being eroded by inflation and the cost of living. The political optics aren’t good; whatever […]

26/09/202226/09/2022Uncategorized

Safety

No... but the public would see what's going on. We'd see variation, learn from the best, understand retention, ensure we have exit interviews, see the full picture and make meaningful plans. And, it would create...

I hope you had a good weekend. I can guess, some of you won’t have had much of a weekend… especially if […]

23/09/202223/09/2022Uncategorized

The mess we’re in

So, why is there a variation in waiting times for a GP appointment and ambulance handovers… and there is… and it’s big.

Variation… the enemy of quality… That’s our old friend, Edwards Deming talking… … he’s right. Variation always tries to tell us something. We just […]

21/09/202221/09/2022Uncategorized

Patience

• ambulance handovers, • backlog-waiting, • care… which might mean better-care, more care, home-care, care-care or heaven forfend, social care… • doctors and dentists.

Tizzie (Liz Trus) is at an international knees-up in the US, the UN, I think. The first news; the much-awaited and probably […]

20/09/202220/09/2022Uncategorized

Nothing’s gonna change, is it

Some issues, grinding, inexorably to a conclusion, we are left to watch happen, in slow motion.

The procession, through London, the Royal Navy Ratings pulling the gun carriage, bearing Queen Elizabeth’s coffin, was over a mile long. The […]

16/09/202216/09/2022Uncategorized

Never fails us

A moment of quiet reflection. Then walk-on, into the pale sunlight of New Palace Yard, with its lime trees and Portland Stone, hiding a five story underground car park, for Members and staff. Life goes on.

The stream of people, nearly four miles long, flows quietly beside the River Thames. Wends its way through history, to make history. […]

14/09/202214/09/2022Uncategorized

It’s there

Suella Braverman is the new Home Secretary. Or should I say, the latest home secretary. She is something of an odd-ball. As the Guardian […]

12/09/202212/09/2022Uncategorized

Get good

Elizabeth, The Queen. The longest serving monarch and someone, whose passing, was marked, around the world. The epitome of longevity.

If there is a word, to start off the week, it might be… longevity. Elizabeth, The Queen. The longest serving monarch and someone, […]

07/09/202207/09/2022Uncategorized

Deliver

Dr Thérèse Coffey. I’m told she likes a cigar and a drop of scotch. She can’t be all bad!

Here we go again… Welcome to my 21st secretary of state for health… … Dr Thérèse Coffey. I’m told she likes a cigar […]