External contributors – Page 188
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CommentMy five-year journey reporting on Mid Staffs
Reporter and witness Shaun Lintern recalls a disturbing story
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CommentWe need to have belief in a paperless NHS
Not everyone has been convinced about the benefits of the tech revolution
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CommentA vison for better mental healthcare
Acceptance, choice and dignity should be central to care
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Comment
Readers' letters - 31 January 2013
This week’s letters include NHS Property Services chief Simon Holden responding to HSJ’s story about the company charging CCGs and a counter to Sir David Nicholson’s view that hospitals “very bad places” for older people’s care
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CommentSally Gainsbury: putting a stopper on bungs
The DH and Monitor are in a quandry over EU competition rules
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CommentLindsey Davies on giving health messages clout
Marketing should be at the heart of public health and health and care services
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Comment‘There are so many channels, each one can have a role’
Russ Lidstone, chief executive of advertising agency Havas Worldwide London, explains how the NHS can move further into the digital age and take advantage of the many ways it can effectively engage the public
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CommentCut the platitudes and get staff motivated
Sustainable change depends on having staff that care
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CommentMichael White: Burnham's big leap
Burnham’s plans for the NHS finally embrace social care and its implications
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CommentHunt's call on South London will affect the whole NHS
The impact will go far beyond Lewisham Hospital
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CommentThe NHS has forgotten the meaning of 'service'
The latest reform slogan shouldn’t distract us from patient care
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We must back social investment pioneers
A new form of healthcare needs a fresh finance model
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CommentCan greater transparency expose future care failures?
The government sees openness as key to preventing failures
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CommentThe NHS cannot ignore DH underspends
The NHS must decide what has to go unspent if providers are to spend their surpluses
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Readers' letters − 24 January 2013
This week’s letters include a call for a change in attitudes to mental health and responses to HSJ’s exclusive interview with Sir David Nicholson, as well as making the case for the use of nutritional supplements in care homes
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CommentMichael White: how former ministers keep busy
Paul Burstow wants the government to do more for carers
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CommentThe dangers of marketisation
Competition will be a disaster for the NHS’s patients, finances and ethics
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Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?
We must reimagine the wider health and social care system
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CommentNew thinking about the future of maternity care
Old assumptions are stopping maternity services from improving
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Readers' letters - 17 January 2013
A tribute to Alasdair Liddell, who died on 31 December 2012, aged 63