Comments on: Dr Phil’s Private Eye Column, Issue 1257, March 3, 2010 http://drphilhammond.com/blog/2010/03/04/private-eye/dr-phil%e2%80%99s-private-eye-column-issue-1257-march-3-2010/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: daphnehavercroft http://drphilhammond.com/blog/2010/03/04/private-eye/dr-phil%e2%80%99s-private-eye-column-issue-1257-march-3-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-8 daphnehavercroft Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:15:26 +0000 http://drphilhammond.com/blog/?p=53#comment-8 It seems that managers who appear to focus on patients and recognise the need for public consultation on local healthcare may not last long.<br><br>A Strategic Health Chief Executive is allegedly often heard to say this:<br><br> "To teach chief executives to listen, I only have to put one head on a pole and put it outside the SHA, and they will see that they can't disobey me."<br><br><a href="http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Bosses-tolerate-consultation-upper-GI/article-1918367-detail/article.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Bosses-tolera...</a><br><br>This from the region that is the home of the Bristol Histopathology Inquiry, which has at its heart the question of whether constructive scrutiny and zero tolerance of avoidable harm was taken sufficiently seriously by NHS Managers during the 10 years since concerns were first raised. It seems that managers who appear to focus on patients and recognise the need for public consultation on local healthcare may not last long.

A Strategic Health Chief Executive is allegedly often heard to say this:

“To teach chief executives to listen, I only have to put one head on a pole and put it outside the SHA, and they will see that they can't disobey me.”

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Bosses-tolera…

This from the region that is the home of the Bristol Histopathology Inquiry, which has at its heart the question of whether constructive scrutiny and zero tolerance of avoidable harm was taken sufficiently seriously by NHS Managers during the 10 years since concerns were first raised.

]]> By: RogerLowrey http://drphilhammond.com/blog/2010/03/04/private-eye/dr-phil%e2%80%99s-private-eye-column-issue-1257-march-3-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-6 RogerLowrey Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:33:55 +0000 http://drphilhammond.com/blog/?p=53#comment-6 Correct, when politicians meddle It all goes wrong.<br>How many times will they bugger things up before they realise it don't work.<br>Let teachers teach<br>Let builders build<br>Let Doctors heal<br><br>We are responsible for our selves no one else, not the state<br><br>Not hard to understand, trying to legislate common sense don't work Correct, when politicians meddle It all goes wrong.
How many times will they bugger things up before they realise it don't work.
Let teachers teach
Let builders build
Let Doctors heal

We are responsible for our selves no one else, not the state

Not hard to understand, trying to legislate common sense don't work

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