Has anybody been keeping an eye on the day job?
Seriously, I ask you – the White Paper is blowing across the empty streets with broken windows after the riots, the newspapers are full of Libya, we need to use 24 hour monitoring and finally pay more for the pension.
Is there any chance you might have seen a few patients over the summer?
Okay, here’s the deal, I’ll let you into a secret if you promise not to tell.
The thing is, my source has said that the listening exercise that Steve Field is running was just a scam to get us through the local elections.
If
you do any reading about leadership and management then you might have come
across Wicked, Tame and Critical problems.
This
classification of issues is a current management vogue like many gone before,
however it did give me a moments insight into the NHS crisis we currently face.
I think it’s fair to say that up close the Silver Fox is a reasonably attractive individual.
He’s not my personal cup of tea, you understand, but ageing well, full head of grey hair and a reasonably charismatic style that all senior politicians seem to develop.
Hopefully you know by now that I’m not a natural game player. One of the reasons why I hated playing with some of the kids at school was that they always thought it funny to change the rules while the game was being played – additions of ‘backies’ and ‘barley/parlay’ were always annoying.
‘Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be’, is our new theme
tune at the Black
Tower. We’ve now received
guidance from the SHA on how we will enter the brave new world of clustering.
Before laying out the details, can I ask is it just me who associates the word
cluster with a nasty American invention? I’m talking about cluster bombs…
When it comes to the holiday season we all know that Santa sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake, but here at the Black Tower the Eye of Sauron also lets us know if you’ve been good or bad.
Imagine a roast that
arrives as a set of bones and gradually the carcass builds muscle, skin and
feathers and starts to resemble something. This summer we got the bones and month by month a little more flesh has been
added.
Now I don’t mind admitting when I don’t know something, or
when I’ve got it wrong. I’ve made mistakes, more than a few, I’ve bitten off
more than I could chew. Sorry, just had a ‘my way’ moment there.
Runaround now! Do you remember the kids quiz and activity show hosted by
Mike Reid back in the 1970s?
Runaround was loud, noisy and pointless, with various kids
being asked to stand underneath the right answer to the question being posed. A
buzzer sounded and they could change their minds.
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