Features
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Managing Better Care: Chelsea & Westminster postnatal digital suite
Even during the Covid-19 emergency, managers and clinicians are working to improve NHS services. We report…
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Feature: The pros and cons of homeworking
NHS managers across the UK are discovering the joys – or horrors – of working from…
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The Sharp End: So much effort, such poor outcomes
I spent 40 years building health services for elderly people living at home – then my…
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Feature: How to protect your career when starting a family
Despite extensive legal protection for new mothers, many women managers find going back to work difficult…
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Managing Better Care: Rethinking liver care in NHS Tayside
Deficiencies with testing have left many patients with serious undiagnosed liver disease for years on end.…
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The Sharp End: If we want great leaders, stop rewarding the wrong behaviours
The NHS needs top-class leaders, but our approach to performance management and promotion filters out good…
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MiP at Work: How do we shift power to local communities in the NHS?
To make sure your voice is heard, MiP has joined an independent commission looking at how…
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Feature: Trauma at work – the shocking truth
SPECIAL REPORT: A small but growing number of NHS managers are being diagnosed with workplace PTSD.…
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Feature: Dismissals – the get out clause
We speak to two MiP national officers about how threats of dismissal for unspecified “substantial” reasons…
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Feature: Health and care integration – lessons from Scotland and Wales
With the English NHS in a hurry to integrate health and social care, we examine the…
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MiP at Work: Unfair redundancy cap discriminates against managers
Our members’ survey found widespread fear and confusion about plans to restrict exit payments for NHS…
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MiP at Work: MiP North Summit, Leeds, 12 June 2019
MiP held first North Summit in Leeds on 12 June brought together members and stakeholders for…
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The Sharp End: Fundamental change needed to rescue NHS from the 1950s
Courageous, system-wide change is the only way to stem increasing demand for medical care and meet…
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Feature: Pots and plans – changes to NHS pensions schemes
Despite recent tax changes and legal doubts hanging over improvements to the scheme, the NHS pension…
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MiP at Work: NHSE & I — supporting MiP members at national and local level
We explain how MiP is standing up for members affected by the restructuring of NHS England…
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The Sharp End: GP Federations – empower professionals who make people healthier
GPs and local councils working together to improve public health is the best way to make…
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Managers in the NHS: part of the solution, not the problem
A guest blog by Ian Kirkpatrick, the Monash Warwick Professor of Healthcare Improvement & Implementation Science…
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NHS leaders warn of Brexit’s “seismic” impact
A panel of health and care leaders have pinpointed the biggest Brexit risks – and condemned…
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The Sharp End: The NHS must be smart about digital tech
Telemedicine could bring huge benefits but, managed badly, we could end up combining the worst aspects…
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MiP at Work: Constructive dismissal – think twice before you walk
A difficult boss and unreasonable demands from your employer don’t necessarily add up to constructive dismissal.…
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MiP at Work: Members back three-year pay deals in Scotland and Wales
Ballots show overwhelming backing for pay offers, but talks continue in both countries on the details.
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Managing Better Care: Ipswich joins forces to slash bed blocking
Managers and doctors from Ipswich Hospital tell us how they joined forces with local partners to…
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Casework: Redundancy – finding the right way out
When redundancies loom, everyone’s situation is different. One MiP member tells us about how the union…
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Unblocking the outpatients system at St Mark’s
How the struggling gastroenterology department at St Mark’s Hospital worked with patients and quality improvement managers…