External contributors – Page 66
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CommentInfection prevention is not just the job of the NHS
“Home growing” staff is the key to an integrated infection prevention strategy, writes Liz Grogan
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CommentMental health ‘at risk of being crowded out’ during election debate
Attention-seeking parties competing in the general election will priortise some, but not all, aspects of health and social care, writes Paul Burstow.
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CommentLinked datasets need not be the preserve of the rich
Linking data can offer unbridled benefits to healthcare systems, but at what financial cost? Richard Wood explores how in one healthcare system this has been achieved in little time and with a low price tag.
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CommentBiggest ever waiting list as general election looms
The best way for the next government to reduce waiting times will be steadily and patiently, by keeping up with demand. Not with a blitz of waiting list initiatives.
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CommentObituary: Frank Dobson
Michael White on Frank Dobson, former health secretary, who has died at the age of 79.
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CommentWhat about the patient?: Alyson McGregor
This week: Alyson McGregor, national director, Altogether Better
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CommentSending mental health patients out of area is counterproductive
Professor Wendy Burn on ensuring that patients can get the care they need in local facilities
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CommentPressing ahead: what to expect from the Conservative manifesto on the NHS
Richard Sloggett gives a lowdown on what the Conservative manifesto might have in store for the NHS
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Comment‘It was the most terrible thing I’d ever seen’
This week: Barry Quirk, chief executive of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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CommentIs underinvestment in public health setting up ICSs to fail?
William Pett reflects on concerns among STPs and ICSs that it will be they who pay the price for the ongoing squeeze on the public health grant
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CommentGP waiting times: learning from the past
Tim Gardner on setting new GP waiting time targets, and the pitfalls of applying a narrowly-focussed solution to ‘fix’ a complex issue
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CommentThere is still much to do to defeat Britain's biggest cancer killer
The complex diagnosing and treatment of lung cancer needs the reins of policy tightening. By David Baldwin
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CommentThe Bedpan: Safe in the Iron Lady’s hands
This week: Margaret Thatcher and the birth of the internal market
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CommentSupporting menopausal women can help the NHS staffing crisis
Nearly half of the female NHS workforce between the ages of 45 and 64. Managers and colleagues should talk with them about the menopause and entwine acknowledgement and support into their policies and processes, suggests Jacqui McBurnie
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CommentReverse mentoring: a road to black and minority ethnic staff empowerment
Reverse mentoring builds a bridge with the key protagonists – the senior white leaders who make culture happen within our NHS. By Ali Raza.
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CommentStafford failed my mother, but my father received exemplary care
Having lost her mother 13 years ago in the Mid Staffs disaster, Deb Hazeldine recounts the exemplary end-of-life care her father received recently at the University Hospitals of North Midlands.
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CommentNHS bosses’ Brexit concerns at final planning stage revealed
Local NHS leaders remain concerned about several wide-ranging issues which could be unleashed on the service if there is a no-deal Brexit, from continuity of medical supplies to transport problems. But an NHS Confederation survey suggests the sector has undergone a robust planning process and is “generally well-prepared”. The lobby ...
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CommentThe Bedpan: Extinction Rebellion reaches the NHS
This week: Doctors for Extinction Rebellion