All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 20
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CommentHistory shows the health benefits of a smoking tax
The chancellor could boost public health and finances
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CommentA change is going to come
This is your chance to join the first ever NHS Change Day and make a difference
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CommentCCG managers must make sense of evidence
Getting to grips with evidence is a skill that will take time to develop
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CommentThe NHS mandate: liberation or ligature?
The freedom promised sounds good but how much is really on offer?
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CommentStandards suffer when children's services are fragmented
Disparate children’s services need an urgent review
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CommentSally Gainsbury: calculating the cost of mental health
The answer is £334, not 42, according to new reference costs
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CommentIt's time to rethink payment by results
The landscape has changed, and with it so should the tariff system
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CommentDoctors' discipline needs an overhaul
Maintaining High Professional Standards is failing patients, doctors and employers
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CommentOur own cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine in the UK is facing its biggest challenge since its inception
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CommentSavile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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CommentMichael White: never say never
We have heard a lot this week about “never events”, which aren’t supposed to happen in the NHS.
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CommentWhistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
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CommentA fair deal for older people
One of the clearest signs of medical and social progress in the post-NHS era is the leap in life expectancy
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CommentYour Humble Servant: heroic failure
“We both know that the only way Monitor will pass us is if we treat a lot fewer patients, with even fewer staff and minimal kit”
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CommentA perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
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CommentAt last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
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CommentMichael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
Labour are asking tough questions about the affordability of Scotland’s healthcare
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CommentMichael White: the Savile fallout begins now
My tabloid friends insist Jimmy proved too cunning, too litigious, too famous to nail
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CommentHow competition can help community services
Why choice does not always lead to privatisation