News – Page 2633
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The Commons touch
Up and down the country, citizens of the nation have been invited to speak their hearts and minds on the great national plan for health. Kaye McIntosh lends an ear
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HAZy days
Those who have ever wondered exactly what health action zones do will get plenty of answers on Merseyside. Projects - ranging from a 'feel good factory' to roofing in alleyways - are up and running there with the aim of helping people feel better and healthier. The zone, the largest ...
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Milburn finds right answer - to the wrong question
Health secretary must realise number of people waiting is not the issue
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NHS can manage on its own
The government's crusade to rid the NHS of its alleged inefficiencies and unacceptable variations in performance risks overlooking a simple truth: the cure may kill the patient. With the service already in the throes of major change, the announcement of further upheaval - and a national plan to boot - ...
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How Dr Ladyman taught MPs a worthwhile lesson
There are dozens of parliamentary groups, representing well-meaning cross-party interests ranging from abortion and agriculture to world government and youth affairs. I once heard of an MP applying to lead a delegation to Tonga, a lovely spot in the South Pacific. Too late did he discover that it was not ...
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Down the tubes
Trusts have a constant problem in recruiting and keeping laboratory staff, and low pay is the root of the problem. Seamus Ward reports
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Test match
Pathology services are perceived as expensive and their cost-benefits to the NHS are ignored simply because they are long-term. The whole NHS is paying the price, argue Colin Connolly and Dennis Huckerby
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Hit and miss
A survey of all practices in one PCG found that many are poorly prepared for the era of clinical governance. Juan Baeza and colleagues report
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Mothers' care labouring under delusions
One of the doughtiest and most paradoxical champions of the NHS in the House of Commons recently returned to the subject of one of his greatest triumphs - maternity care - to lament with typical directness what he sees as its decline.
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Cancer drugs probe 'should take only months'
NHS cancer 'czar' Mike Richards has told MPs he expects 'around a dozen' licensed cancer drugs currently prescribed by some health authorities to be formally assessed 'in the next few months'.
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In brief: Extra-contractual referrals
Despite the government's promise to crack down on extra-contractual referrals, numbers of out-of-area treatments in the first two years of the Labour government have been as high as they were during the Conservatives' internal market. Of all hospital treatments in 1998, referrals out of health authority area accounted for 23 ...
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In brief: NHS
The NHS in England spent £314m on non-NHS contractor-provided domestic, hotel, cleaning, laundry and cleaning equipment services in 1988-89.