Beyond Blithering

This site is no longer being updated, but Julian Patterson writes a weekly column for HSJ. Register for free to read it. He also writes an occasional column for the leading GP newspaper Pulse.More

In an open letter to the Blithering Argus, Sir Trevor Longstay celebrates his first 100 days in charge of the ICS, and muses on his legacy It is 100 days since I took the helm at the Blithering ICS and, by Jove, we’ve achieved a lot in that time. I take huge pride and not…More

This week Joy Hunter, newly appointed lead for the Blithering ICS, answers more of your questions about forthcoming reforms to the NHS as set out in the government white paper ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’ Why is the NHS being reformed? Every so often we need to…More

The Blithering Awards were held online this year. For those unable to afford a virtual table at the live event, here is a transcript of the speech given by Blithering’s director of communications and recognition, Martin Plackard, who co-hosted the awards with hilarious local comedian and club performer Terry Crout. Please note that several –…More

The Blithering Awards were held online this year. For those unable to afford a virtual table at the live event, here is a transcript of the speech given by Blithering’s director of communications and recognition, Martin Plackard, who co-hosted the awards with hilarious local comedian and club performer Terry Crout. Please note that several –…More

Dido Harding will use part of the money she made from the Test and Trace programme to redecorate Boris Johnson’s Number 10 Downing Street flat, a Twitter investigation has revealed. Baroness Harding, who is married to a man who once dined on children, has personally made £37 billion in her position as head of Test…More

This week Joy Hunter, newly appointed lead for the Blithering ICS, answers more of your questions about forthcoming reforms to the NHS as set out in the government white paper ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’ Why is the NHS being reformed? Every so often we need to…More

NHS Improvement and NHS Horizons have teamed up with NHS Blithering’s digital emoting lead Martin Plackard to produce a bite-size guide to virtue signalling. This is the art of expressing opinions that demonstrate one’s compassion, good character and moral rectitude.  Virtue signalling is a skill that all aspiring managers should cultivate and that the best…More

The government has published its long-awaited white paper setting out a number of refinements to the ground-breaking reforms introduced by Andrew Lansley in 2012.  In the document entitled “Integrated and Innovative Something or Other: working together and so on and so forth” [working title], the government explains how “certain aspects” of the Lansley reforms –…More

March 1348 – The King has hit back at charges that he is failing to halt the progress of the plague, blaming “God’s will, blasphemers from the Orient and Genoese merchants” for the spread of the disease. A spokesman for Edward III said: “No one has worked harder than the Privy Council to stop the pestilence”,…More