by Kate Pym | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
From 1st April 2015 Commissioning of Renal Services will move from NHS England Specialist Commissioning, to Clinical Commissioning Groups. The National Kidney Foundation lobbied against the move, as I am sure, did other groups and commercial organisations. This is...
by Kate Pym | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
Throughout my career in health and social care, there has been a constant (not always) unsaid friction between the public and private sector. The perception seemed to be that the private sector needs to make a profit in order to survive and as such must in some way...
by Kate Pym | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
This is Nick and me in 1984, we hadn’t been seeing each long, I was 17 and Nick was 20. Nick was sailing the yacht, single handed, and we were on a brief trip to the Lake District. It was shortly before Nick was due to leave the Royal Marines and I was...
by Kate Pym | Nov 2, 2016 | Business, Commercial, None
Throughout my career selling to the public sector, all negotiations come down to a relationship. Whether that is a relationship between a single sales representative and a procurement manager, or a commercial organisation and a hospital, or local council. A...
by Kate Pym | Nov 1, 2016 | Social Care
Patients should not be seen as people who have treatments given to them, or care provided for them. All patients have their own skills, likes, dislikes and preferences. A service which does not take the patient’s views into account is setting itself up to...
