All David Cameron articles – Page 21
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Jon Restell on praise for the NHS
I am writing this column soft-eyed at the close of the busy next stage review/NHS 60th anniversary week, with Nye Bevan staring exhortation at me from my desk calendar.
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Comment
Michael White on Darzi politics
Even before the saintly Lord Darzi uttered the first sentence of his latest report, or Henley had even voted, the Cameroon Conservatives had got their NHS retaliation in first.
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David Cameron promises a bonfire of NHS targets
The Conservatives have pledged to scrap top-down targets for the NHS in a 'green paper' setting out their plans for the health service.
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David Cameron's praise for joined-up GPs
It was reassuring to hear a politician praise the work of GPs and acknowledge the core values of general practice: the unique relationship between GP and patient; integrated, continuous care and lifelong care, writes Steve Field
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Comment
Michael White on health policy attacks
In the run-up to the local elections, not to mention the Royal College of Nursing's conference, the government took a fearsome bombardment on the health front.
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Comment
Media Watch: polyclinic row
The polyclinic row stepped up a gear this week as the Tories launched a 'campaign to save the family doctor', warning more than 1,700 GP surgeries could close.
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Government firm on pay offer in face of threats
The government has made it clear it will not back down over NHS pay, despite threats of industrial action.
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Conservatives to let GPs pick their own hours
The Conservatives have backed GPs' calls to be allowed to determine their own opening hours.
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Comment
Political opening hours
As a medical student, I sat in on GP clinics and recall whole mornings with patients seeing their charming GP, chatting, then leaving the room reassured but without a new diagnosis or treatment, writes Jake Low-Beer
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HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash
A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize
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Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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Michael White on immigration and the NHS
As old favourites like immigration and NHS pay resurfaced in public debate, a conversation I overheard in a Berkshire pub years ago popped up again this week.
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Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Conservatives defend district general pledge
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has defended the Conservative party's pledge to 'save' district general hospitals.
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Michael White on Brown's bottler government
What a political week! The NHS may have ended up with a better-than-expected settlement from Alistair Darling’s comprehensive spending review, but voters will not be grateful to ‘Bottler Brown’ and his mates for a while.
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Media Watch: GP contracts and doctored photos
As the party conference season drew to a close, the Conservatives this week came out fighting, with leader David Cameron pledging to rewrite the GP contract.
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Conservatives call for in-house laundries to fight infection
Trusts should be obliged to provide changing and laundry facilities as part of the war on infection control, the Conservatives have said.
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Conservatives launch health policy
GPs should be given control of health service budgets, Conservative leader David Cameron and shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley will say today as they set out their vision for an NHS with fewer targets and a stronger focus on health outcomes.Details of the policy will appear on the Conservative Party ...
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Michael White on politics
'Does the first glimpse of the new, kinder Tory health policy amount to much? Blair didn't think so'
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Michael White on politics
'All's fair in love and politics and Labour used to say 'Tory cuts' when it really meant smaller increases'