External contributors – Page 185
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CommentThe board's first challenges
The commissioning board face difficult times ahead with the weight of expectation heavy
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CommentA fair deal for older people
One of the clearest signs of medical and social progress in the post-NHS era is the leap in life expectancy
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CommentAli Parsa on the big society
Why sell the Big Society when there’s a big crash to deal with?
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CommentYour Humble Servant: heroic failure
“We both know that the only way Monitor will pass us is if we treat a lot fewer patients, with even fewer staff and minimal kit”
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CommentNick Partridge on volunteers
We relied on unpaid volunteers to comfort those coping with what was then a terminal illness
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CommentReaders' letters – 25 October 2012
Bexley Council responds to our claim that social care in the borough is ‘failing’; and how a service has made it easier for patients to get repeat prescriptions
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CommentA perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
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CommentAt last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
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CommentMichael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
Labour are asking tough questions about the affordability of Scotland’s healthcare
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CommentIs choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
Will choice hit the vulnerable or drive up standards?
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CommentHow competition can help community services
Why choice does not always lead to privatisation
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CommentCompetition: waiting for that green light
We need to move the debate on from whether or not competition actually works
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CommentMichael White: the Savile fallout begins now
My tabloid friends insist Jimmy proved too cunning, too litigious, too famous to nail
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CommentReaders' letters - 18 October 2012
Private patient units will be an important contributor to NHS trusts’ balance sheets
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CommentSally Gainsbury: tariff twister
Everyone knows which NHS hospitals are the most powerful, right?
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CommentFace the facts on closures
If we don’t share performance information with the public, it is hard to avoid “cuts” branding
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CommentIrresponsible, or a breath of fresh air?
Asda is making it easier to get a blue inhaler by cutting out the GP
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CommentThere is a Plan B after all
Public sector employment could be part of the solution to our economic woes, argues Noel Plumridge
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CommentStephen Eames: successful acquisitions
These laudable aims often act as a fig leaf for cost cutting - remember the old fable about Greeks bearing gifts
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CommentMedia Watch: cuts, porridge and pigeons
There was a mixed bag of health stories across the nationals on Monday