All Media Watch articles – Page 6
-
NewsMixed sex wards and ennui
Health secretary Andrew Lansley this week announced an end to mixed sex wards in the NHS, prompting an outbreak of ennui.
-
CommentSteve Field on public health and milky u-turns
His members have been given the key to NHS commissioning, and now Royal College of GPs chair Steve Field has weighed in on the country’s public health.
-
CommentMedia Watch: NHS trusts may soon be courting oligarchs
A front page on the financial arrangements of foundation trusts? Well it wasn’t likely to be The Sun.
-
CommentMedia Watch: lazy and unproductive?
Many NHS staff won’t be getting a pay rise and fear for their jobs, but they are lazy and unproductive too, newspaper reports suggest.
-
CommentMedia Watch: eye-watering, mouth-watering NHS cash
As the dust settles on last week’s health white paper, it seems the newspapers believe the reforms will lead to somebody somewhere making easy money.
-
CommentMedia Watch: obesity and public health
Obesity and poor diets were eating many journalists as the government relaxed its attempts to control people’s lifestyles.
-
CommentMedia Watch: Lansley's plans for wholesale change
As rumour and speculation over cuts continues, the Financial Times reported that health secretary Andrew Lansley’s proposals for wholesale structural change within the NHS had hit a snag when seen by the committee that resolves intra-coalition government disagreements.
-
CommentMedia Watch: public sector pensions
In the build-up to Tuesday’s Budget, it was open season on public sector pensions.
-
CommentMedia Watch: variations in NHS performance in the news
Massive variations in NHS doctors’ performance and a widespread failure to collect data to show them how they are doing have been splashed across the press over recent days.
-
CommentMedia Watch: the World Cup and public health
This summer’s ice cream weather has started early, giving those responsible for the nation’s public health a headache.
-
CommentMedia Watch: freeing up NHS information
The post-bank holiday papers were brimming with information about how much more information on the mechanics of running public services is to become accessible.
-
CommentMedia Watch: Ban on cheap alcohol
Public health doctors have raised at least one cheer for the new government’s plans to ban supermarkets from selling cheap alcohol as a loss leader.
-
CommentMedia Watch: the end of purdah
Tomorrow sees the beginning of the end of a word journalists loathe.
-
CommentMedia Watch: the Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats may be flavour of the month in the media but their latest effort may not go down well with managers.
-
Comment
Media Watch: volcanic ash and manifesto launches
They did their best but so far no one has found a splash-worthy NHS angle to the dust cloud story.
-
CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers' pay
Grim reading for managers returning to work on Monday as virtually all the papers ran with a report on managers’ pay increasing faster than nurses’.
-
CommentMedia Watch: election promises and English lessons
Before the election officially kicked off, the newspapers found space to devote to goings on in the NHS.
-
CommentMedia Watch: budget cut déjà vu
HSJ readers may have been forgiven for getting a sense of déjà vu when reading the national press this week. The Daily Telegraph front page on Saturday warned its readers to expect “Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts”.
-
CommentMedia Watch: CQC registration and the staff survey
Obama and Jade Goody topped the pre-Budget headlines this week, but last week ended with two stories of interest to NHS managers: the first trusts to register with the Care Quality Commission and the NHS staff survey.
-
CommentMedia Watch: maternity pledges
If the forthcoming election really will be all about capturing the female vote, Gordon Brown went out all guns blazing with an online chat on the Netmums website, on Mother’s Day.