John Wright
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Comment on: NHS 'must boost use of technology'
Barbara Harpham needs to do more research. NICE currently does not recommend perfectly safe, effective and low-cost patient-warming technology and recommends instead old-fashioned forced air technology about which there are some justifiable doubts relating to contamination in the operating theatre. NICE does not intend to review its warming guidelines until 2011. And MDT wonder why cost-saving technology is not being taken up by the NHS? NICE, as ever, is part of the problem, not the solution
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Comment on: Tory linked to private health firm
What are the details of the 'fresh row''? Who said what? Can't find these details in this piece. Or is it all in the minds of the HSJ editorial team? By the way, should HSJ editorial staff be allowed to have private medical insurance? Do any editorial staff get PMI as an employee benefit OR does any HSJ writer subscribe to PMI personally as a life choice? I think we should be told.
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Comment on: Plunging waiting times reopen dispute over clinical benefits
It is astonishing that Sally Gainsbury's piece on the success of the cataract programme mentions the 13,000 procedures in ISTCs but completely ignores the 27,500 (and rising) cataract operations carried out on NHS mobile treatment centres at sites local to the patient. Neither has the HSJ looked at the whole phenomenon of high technology mobile operating theatres and how they are enabling the NHS to provide additional surgical capacity when and where it is needed. Still, we must not let the facts stand in the way of a negative story, must we?
