All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 17

  • Comment

    Michael White on Politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I think Hewitt will leave the DoH, not something I would have confidently stated a. month ago

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Sunday night is usually quietly un-newsy and health politics is no exception. But not last Sunday night, when it emerged that British Medical Association chair James Johnson had fallen on his scalpel over the medical fiasco.

  • News

    Mediawatch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    New year, new resolutions, and even the media is backing smokers on their quest to kick the habit.

  • Comment

    Mediawatch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'As junior doctors struggle to find work The Sunday Times claimed that the Department of Health survey on GP workload would show that family doctors were earning more and working less'

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Flinging a 'small morsel of red meat' to the pack would only make them salivate even harder for more

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Its conclusion: the 'glitzy 'joined-up' NHS remains a low-tech hotch-potch'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    So began the week of blanket coverage of the British Medical Association’s annual whinge-fest conference

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Everyone was looking the other way on 16 June when the Financial Timesbroke the story that the government was advertising for private sector primary care trust management services.

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    EMPTY

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Cleaning queens for Ealing 'comedy'

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Hats must come off for the clever combining of deficit and superbug'

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The irony is that 'taking politics out of the NHS' is sure to be mired in political speculation

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Even if they do not come up with any new policy, they've got an awful lot of ammunition with which to bombard the government

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'We are supposed to be a nation of dog lovers, but was this a step too far?'