All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 25
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Tristan Reuser on clinical engagement
The re-engineering of health systems requires traditional barriers between primary and secondary care to come down, writes Tristan Reuser
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Decade of mental healthcare defined by unproductive debate
Mental health trust chief executives give their views of ten years under New Labour
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The importance of manager-doctor relationships
Training row emphasises the importance of collaboration
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Feedback on Peter Degeling's article on integrated care pathways.
We write in relation to the recent article written by Peter Degeling on integrated care pathways. The claim that '30 clinicians walked out of a recent presentation' in Swansea is entirely false.
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The real best value
Dr Andy Jones writes on the reality of best value primary care and seems to conclude that clinical engagement is the key. However, it is unclear where the best value is to come from and in particular the role that he envisages for GPs and their teams.
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Richard Bourne on the price of better performance
The NHS.occupies a special place in the national psyche. It is a huge organisation with the major economic consequences implied. It is at the heart of politics, with the perceived state of the NHS being a proxy for the popularity of a government.
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'Radical rethink' needed to cope with staffing crisis
One in five school leavers will have to make the NHS their employer of first choice if future vacancies are to be filled and services maintained.
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Electronic health records - cutting through the hysteria
There is a lot of hysteria about electronic health records. Those of us who have worked inside health institutions have no illusions about the safeguards applied to paper records. Paper records are often not available when needed, even in the institution where they are created. And there is almost no ...
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New day, same old reforms
I haven't had any first hand experience of this latest round of organisational change in the English NHS, having left it to work in Scotland some years ago in horror at the Tory internal market 'reforms' that resulted in the mass-sacking of almost everyone I respected in NHS administration.
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Dispatching the New Labour ideal
As a participant in the Dispatches programme The NHS - Where did all the money go?, may I offer the following reflections to your correspondent Donald.Reid. He is right that there have been improvements in key areas, including waiting times.
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Doctors have feelings too
I read Anna Donald's article on doctors' motives with interest (opinion, page 17, 8 March 2007). In terms of what doctors need, it is about finding an acceptable means of emotional release.
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Is flu testing really necessary?
I have to question whether the Department of Health's flu pandemic testing is really the best use of UK.taxpayers' money.
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There's life in patient forums yet
The patient forum concerned in the North Eastern Derbyshire primary care trust.versus Pam Smith, is far from dead or in danger of passing away ('moribund' is your term for it).
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With friends like Milburn...
I have some sympathy with the chief executives of acute trusts surveyed in your report. The Department of Health.may end up paying a high price for its game of 'central credit and local blame'.
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Your Humble Servant: life on Mars
‘The ambulance would be at least an hour and that they should do what first aid they could until the paramedics arrived’
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Inequalities: the plain truth
Thank you Ruth Hussey for your plain speaking about tackling inequality. Commissioners need to take note, but we need to innovate not replicate.
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Ipswich's spinal success story
I applaud the work undertaken in Ipswich in transforming services for people with spinal pain. It demonstrates the real success of multi-disciplinary working across organisations' boundaries in quality and efficiency of care.
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Mental health farce cannot go on
The present deplorable state of affairs in mental health facilities is easily explained. Between 1970 and 1999 some 87,000 mental health beds were closed, according to the Department of Health.
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Ruth Harrison responds to Healthcare Commission on C-Dif
I am writing with reference to your article on Healthcare Commission.standards published on the 15 March 2007 on page 5 that referred to me by name.
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Consistency and agreement are needed to spread success
'The MPs' committee calls for lessons learned from the turnaround programme to be shared. But evidence for its effectiveness is opaque'.