All Acute care articles – Page 462

  • News

    Some trusts will stay in red, MPs warn

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Some NHS trusts will never get back into financial balance, one of the government's turnaround advisers has admitted.

  • News

    Monitor settles payment by results row

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A public dispute between the foundation trust and primary care trust in Bournemouth over payments under payment by results has been settled.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Some Labour MPs suspect the NHS could have run more such centres just as well'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Only The Guardianfelt Channel Five's screening of a Caesarean section on Sunday night warranted much attention'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.