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Initiated by Nuffield Hospitals as part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, Healthspeak is a debate about the language used to describe, deliver and manage healthcare.

Language is important. Vocabulary shapes ideas, ideologies and paradigms, it sets expectations and defines success and failure.

Nuffield Hospitals believes that the vocabulary of healthcare may have become riddled with assumptions and orthodoxies which are no longer fit for purpose.

We will expose this issue to a thorough examination at a series of events throughout 2007.


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June 07, 2007

Has healthcare become infected with the wrong words?

Are health managers mired in management-speak? How good are clinicians at using language that patients can understand? The reform programme has introduced the language of the market, but for many it still sticks in the craw.

Nuffield Hospitals is initiating a debate about the vocabulary which has grown up around the delivery and management of healthcare.

Are there words and phrases you would like to see expunged from healthcare altogether?

Join the debate by clicking on ‘comments’ below. You don’t need a TypeKey or TypePad account to post a comment. The contributions will be reflected in a report to be published in November.

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