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CommentReaders' letters - 8 November 2012
It’s not perfect, by the personal medical services contract offers the flexibility that is eential to delivering tailor-made services. Plus, are mothers and midwives being moved around like pieces in a board game?
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CommentDoctors' discipline needs an overhaul
Maintaining High Professional Standards is failing patients, doctors and employers
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CommentMichael White: MPs anxious to right a wrong
Ed Miliband made a rare leader’s speech on mental health
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CommentRobert Naylor on research
Over the past century, the UK has punched well above its weight in biomedical scientific discovery. Many of these achievements have been driven by leading hospital and university collaborations through a tripartite mission – top quality patient care, excellent education and world class research.The unique nature of the NHS and ...
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CommentReaders' letters - 1 November
Checks in place ensure over-the-counter inhalers are safe; and why is no one holding commissioners to account over abuse in care homes?
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CommentSavile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: to have and have not
Commissioners dream of stockings bulging with giant recurring uplifts
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CommentOur own cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine in the UK is facing its biggest challenge since its inception
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CommentMichael White: never say never
We have heard a lot this week about “never events”, which aren’t supposed to happen in the NHS.
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Comment‘The Health Act is a car crash and that’s a shame’
‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond, the thinker behind the Big Society, talks about how to put it right
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CommentWhistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
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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