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Thread #124840   Message #2760042
Posted By: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
05-Nov-09 - 08:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Business speak
Subject: RE: BS: Business speak
If you want to play bullshit bingo try working in the NHS: "drilling down", "trajectories", "services that consume their own smoke"...

Meanwhile:

"Improved patient outcomes" – a mantra attached routinely to any policy short of mass slaughter.

"Modernisation programme" – the implementation of modern policies. We know they are modern because they are part of a modernisation programme.

"Efficiency savings" – money saved by cutting services. The word 'efficiency' makes this sound better.

"Changing the culture (of the NHS)" – a good way to blame staff for the mistakes of management. The Department of Health never says that it needs to change.
   
"Stakeholders" – this word gives a warm glow of belonging to whoever is being taken for granted.

"Healthcare in the community" – this is only a bullshit term when used to make sick people invisible.

"Internal competition" – a way of making chaos sound like a new order.
   
"Competitive tendering" – sounds much better than more realistic expressions like "franchising" and "the lowest bidder".
   
"Patient choice" – this is putting the language of sales into the patient's mouth. It assumes that patients want the NHS to be a shopping mall.