All Comment articles – Page 326

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    Your Humble Servant: the new SHA

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority

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    Michael white on patient involvement

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Some weeks ago a Labour MP, Patrick Hall, kindly invited me to a reception on the terrace of the House of Commons. Arriving late, I stood among the dissidents at the back as health minister Rosie Winterton explained her views on patient and public involvement in the NHS.

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    NHS managers have a key role in local politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'

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    Michael White on policy leaks

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    You can imagine my distress on returning from foreign parts to discover that things have been going on in the political health arena behind my back, much of it driven by a succession of top-level leaks to this very magazine.

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    'Turnaround teams' - a sticking plaster for a severed limb?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The ability to commission effective and efficient services is completely divorced from strategies to implement and provide cost-effective services, argue Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson

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    Mike White on the Lords

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'You cannot expect a nurse to handle 50 staff and a £1.5m budget without training'

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    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on succession planning

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    My nine-year-old son was recruited this season to the local football league club's centre of excellence. His coaches exude knowledge, enthusiasm and a remarkable commitment to a part-time, barely rewarded, role. They spend much of their spare time watching local junior league matches. They also handle representations from ambitious parents, ...

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    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.

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    Michael White: maternity woes

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'For some, fertility issues are heart-breaking - not marginal NHS issues but utterly central to their lives'

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    Media Watch: NHS meddling

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'We're still waiting for Mr Brown to give any indication of what he might do to the NHS. Surely he won't be able to resist some meddling'

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Hats must come off for the clever combining of deficit and superbug'

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The irony is that 'taking politics out of the NHS' is sure to be mired in political speculation

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Even if they do not come up with any new policy, they've got an awful lot of ammunition with which to bombard the government

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'We are supposed to be a nation of dog lovers, but was this a step too far?'

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Your caring, sharing News of the Worldthis week chose to reveal that David Beckham's son Romeo suffers from epilepsy by splashing with a front-page picture of the four-year-old cowering from the paparazzi's flash guns.

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A pledge made 10 years ago by Tony Blair returned to haunt him this week.

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    And there you were thinking he seemed like such a quiet chap, but last week health minister Andy Burnham came out all guns blazing as he took at a swipe at people who 'get out their placards' when their local hospitals face closure.

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The surrounding media coverage has led to yet another round of NHS manager bashing

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Flinging a 'small morsel of red meat' to the pack would only make them salivate even harder for more