All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 18

  • 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'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.

  • 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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  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The charges problem boils down to a classic dilemma of democratic politics in a market-orientated society'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'All's fair in love and politics and Labour used to say 'Tory cuts' when it really meant smaller increases'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'There's no point replacing meddling by national politicians with meddling by local ones.'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In my youth the old Liberal Party could squeeze into Margate or magnificent Scarborough

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'NHS managers planning new hospitals or services might start thinking greener than they have done up to now'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What made me flinch wasn't those weekend reports that UK cancer patients are turning to Canadian online pharmacies for drugs they cannot yet get on the NHS.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The McElephant in the corner, of course, is devolved Scotland, where personal care is free'

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Don?t think, Mr or Ms Finance Director, that you can force Ms Hewitt out by hiring some extra doctors or buying a fleet of scanners'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In Oz there is tension over the public sector losing out in budget tussles with private-sector providers

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It would have taken a chainsaw to separate Ms Hewitt from the job, despite everything'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    My conclusion, Watson, is that it is what street urchins call a cock-up, not a conspiracy

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The end of the road for Blair

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    ' The DoH is officially saying nothing, but my chums tell me they have no qualms about the quality of the iSoft product'