All Media Watch articles – Page 5
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NewsThe health bill in the news
The NHS was everywhere this week, with heavy coverage ahead of Wednesday’s Health Bill.
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CommentMedia Watch: 'Patients should do more than lounge around in their pyjamas'
The acute sector was the early focus of the media this week, with local papers across the country running stories on hospitals affected by flu and national coverage of two reports written by doctors.
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CommentMedia Watch: Managers under fire
The New Year may have only just begun but NHS managers are already in the firing line.
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CommentAn austere Christmas for the public sector
There was little Christmas cheer in the approach to the festive season as the media focused on cuts and austerity in the public sector.
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CommentThe hospital guide and NHS whistleblowers
Last week The Observer had its exclusive on the Dr Foster Hospital Guide, this week it got a telling off about it.
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CommentMedia Watch: Shame on you
The Observer bagged the tenth Dr Foster Hospital Guide exclusive, leading with an exposé of the trusts it said “shame the NHS”.
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CommentMedia Watch: All eyes are on Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is not a politician to wilt in the face of criticism, which probably came in handy last week.
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CommentMedia Watch: targets and treatment
The last week and a half proved a good few days for journalists, but a less good few days for NHS managers and their staff.
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CommentThe Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies
The national media’s week was not surprisingly dominated by the start of the Mid Staffs public inquiry.
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CommentGPs in the driving seat?
It seems GPs are not really up for being put “in the driving seat” of NHS reform.
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CommentMedia Watch: digital drive and damaging cuts
After cloth merchant Sir Philip Green got backs up last week with talk of waste, Martha Lane Fox is the latest entrepreneur to try telling public servants how to do their jobs.
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CommentCuts, car parks and care records
The media gave a good few pages over to the NHS this week, taking in cuts, car parks and care records, but no obvious mention of the other C word: commissioning.
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CommentMedia Watch: the Conservative Party conference
Unsurprisingly the health coverage this week was largely concerned with the blue half of the government ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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NewsBlog outlines Ed Miliband's views on NHS targets and PFI hospitals
Labour’s new leader Ed Miliband likes targets and private finance initiative hospitals, and doesn’t like the switch to GP commissioning consortia, the Health Policy Insight website reported.
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CommentWhistleblowers and freezing fat
One story united the media in its health coverage at the start of this week. A whistleblower who raised concerns about a clinic involved in the Baby Peter case is to sue the NHS for £100,000.
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CommentMedia Watch: When is a U-turn not a U-turn?
When is a U-turn not a U-turn? When the policy being revised belongs to the previous government, argues Tory health minister Simon Burns, not without reason.
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CommentBlair watch
The most disappointing aspect of Tony Blair’s autobiography A Journey is not the lack of punctuation or fresh sex scandal, but that it pretty much confirms most of what you already knew.
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CommentThe battle for NHS Direct
Party politics has resumed after the summer break, and former senior Labour ministers have headed straight for the NHS.
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CommentConsultant spending under fire
The media reported en masse government figures revealing the NHS spent more than £300m on management consultants last year, though not all pointed out that it represented less than half of 1 per cent of the service’s budget.