External contributors – Page 237
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CommentMichael White: NHS reorganisation row
By chance I stumbled on an NHS row which intrigues me. It is the sight of Labour ministers and their Tory shadows and wannabe successors joining forces to denounce disgraceful “scaremongering” about a hospital reorganisation.
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CommentKen Jarrold on preparing to vote in the general election
The general election is now within touching distance. The campaign is well underway. It is time to prepare and three points may help to do this.
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CommentMichael White: the personal care row
Seatbelts on please, crash helmets too. The pre-election row over personal care for the elderly shows alarming signs of blundering on to polling day.
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CommentAlan Maynard: could the Tories give PCTs bite?
The ‘toothless bulldogs’ of the NHS might hope for more control over purchasing under the Conservatives
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CommentAndrew Jones on the politics of wellbeing
Election season is upon us and the aspiring communicator can only watch in awe as the main protagonists wheel out their proven strategists and presenters.
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CommentMedia Watch: social care funding fight
A toe-to-toe row between health secretary Andy Burnham and his Tory counterpart Andrew Lansley in the Commons injected some colour into the papers last week.
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CommentCally Bann: funding gap
Call me old fashioned, but if you ask me, the difference between 240 and 260 is 20. Which is what I call a gap.
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CommentSheila Williams on leading staff through tough times
Leaders need to remember their core purpose - that of engaging the hearts and minds of their people.
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CommentMichael White: NHS spending pledges
Which is the more alarming spectacle: David Cameron and George Osborne promising real term cuts in public expenditure (but not “swingeing” ones) in the coming Parliament? Or Gordon Brown behaving as if he can carry on making new spending pledges for the NHS?
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CommentStephen Eames on NHS merger turkeys
Most evidence of the impact of mergers is mixed and suggests benefits do not always materialise.
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CommentMedia Watch: cancer care pledge
Gordon Brown’s pledge to provide free one-to-one homecare by specialist nurses for cancer patients divided the newspapers.
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CommentJanice Stevens on same sex hospital accommodation
Same sex facilities call for changed attitudes more than new buildings
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CommentNicky Spencer on building a high performing team
Attention on world class organisations, productive services and talent management, together with a natural inclination to safeguard our own roles and careers, could leave a crucial building block neglected: the team.
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CommentThomas Hughes-Hallett on a better place to die
Despite significant improvements in recent years, care of the dying is too often a lower priority than saving lives.
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CommentStephen Thornton on interpreting NHS performance data
Dr Foster’s Hospital Guide was no help to managers and patients - in fact it added to the confusion
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CommentYour Humble Servant: weapons of self-destruction
If GPs would not stop referring patients to hospital, we had to get rid of both.
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CommentMichael White: are the Tories ready?
The Labour government shows plenty of signs of being on its last legs.
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CommentMedia Watch: smoke free future
The promise of government proposals to create a “smoke free future” for the UK provoked a press battle over the nanny state.
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CommentPete Mason on avoiding staff conflict
Staff conflict will be an unavoidable by-product of what promises to be a testing 2010
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CommentPaul Corrigan on Tory policies vs Tory politics
Given what the opinion polls are saying, developing a close understanding of Conservative Party policy for the NHS looks like a worthwhile investment.