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    Patient Level Data V Special Category Data

    Hey all Wondered if anyone could clearly explain the difference between the two please? Thank you!
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    Dealing with Financial Reports as a Manager

    Hello all, hope you are well. I have just got a role within a large corporate heading up an HR department in the UK (have always worked for smaller firms). I know that part of the role will involve looking at, interpreting and making use of management financial reports, P&L etc. This is not...
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    Takt Time

    Thanks for your response. My problem is not trying to use it in isolation, as I know this is just a small part of Lean, I was just trying to see how Takt time may best apply to my situation. It clearly may apply to my business (healthcare), and appears to be used within the NHS...
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    Takt Time

    Then ask for clarity if I’ve not been clear in my question. Thank you to everyone who provided meaningful input
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    Takt Time

    So anything you don't understand is just boll££cks?
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    Takt Time

    Thanks for the responses! Takt time is the rate at which you need to complete a "product" to meet customer demand. For example, if you receive a new "product" order every 4 hours, your team needs to finish a "product" in 4 hours or less to meet demand. Takt time is your sell rate and can...
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    Takt Time

    Hey all Hope all is well I am trying to get my head around Lean for process improvement for the first time and attempting to apply Takt time to a service-based industry (end-to-end vocational rehabilitation, so telephone assessment >> work in progress, while medical services arranged...
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    :) So as I see it, I am perhaps better off avoiding using the title of Director, and my thinking was to use the word "Head" to avoid being seen as De Facto, at least until such point as I am appointed as a company Director?
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    Thanks for sharing. I understand I would not be a company director. The article states "Avoid job titles that include the word ‘director’ or imply someone is a director if they are not". So, surely, a job title with Director in should be avoided unless you are a company director?
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    Thanks for helping further. I had read that you could be seen as a De Facto Director? A de facto director (meaning a director in fact or in reality) is someone who has not been properly appointed and notified to Companies House as a director but who nevertheless acts as a director and holds...
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    The title is Director of Health Services. This would be a change of job title, currently employed on a full time contract
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    Thanks so much again for all your answers, all really valuable – it was just stated within a book I have been reading on responsibilities of becoming a Director but doesn’t really go into much detail, so I just wanted to get a better understanding what this meant, if anything. Just had further...
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    Thanks all, very helpful advice: We are a very small business, with only 2 other directors – 1 exec, 1 non-exec. We would be considered a small company It is a company Directorship No personal guarantees Few further questions please What must be included in the annual reports by law please...
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    Becoming Director for the First Time

    Hey all Hope you are well I have been offered to opportunity to become a Director of the business I work for, and this will be the first time I will have been appointed. I have been reading through all the legal requirements etc, so any additional advice anyone can offer would be much...
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    Changes to existing contracts

    Thank you, much appreciated