All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 45
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Community
Media Watch: maternity services
The Conservatives have been keeping up the pressure over maternity services - with stories in both broadsheets and tabloids saying the NHS has been forced to turn away women in labour.
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Comment
Helen Bevan on NHS organisational culture
To achieve the breakthroughs we seek in quality and efficiency, we need to focus NHS change efforts not just on new strategies and working practices but on new ways of thinking.
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News
Emma Dent on counting calories
Using the recent anniversary of my birth as an excuse, Mr D and I seized the chance to go for a nice meal surrounded by grown-ups, before the only restaurants we get to patronise are those full of buggies and helpings of organic carrot.
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Community
Media Watch: prayer dispute
'Persecuted for praying', screamed the Daily Mail's front page on Monday. Caroline Petrie, a community nurse in North Somerset 'could be sacked' for offering to pray for a 79 year old widow she was treating.
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News
Emma Dent on the mysteries of maternity care
Standard maternity care is a curious mix, I am discovering. Half is highly medicalised; the other half involves being left to your own devices.
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Comment
Media Watch: South East Coast in the headlines
NHS South East Coast must be holding its head in its hands about its press coverage this week and last.
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Comment
Stephen Eames on managing the NHS
I spent a significant chunk of my Christmas break dealing with the 'here and now' while also reflecting on the harsh year we all face.
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Comment
Michael White on the effects of the recession
How should we react to headlines warning NHS finance directors and their colleagues elsewhere in the public sector that a swathe of private finance initiatives - including new hospitals - is under serious threat because of the recession?
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Comment
Patient and public involvement: keys to success
Patient and public involvement managers must distinguish between two sets of people - ordinary members of the community and more expert contributors. Few can be both
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Comment
Yi Mien Koh on the world class commissioning story
In December, the board at Hillingdon primary care trust completed its world class commissioning assurance panel day.
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Comment
Health inequalities in learning disabilities
Essential changes to learning disabilities services will have knock-on benefits for many other patients, who will gain from better approaches to communication and delivery
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Comment
Michael White on the NHS and vested interests
I always have mixed feelings on reading that some grand professional body like the Law Society or the British Medical Association is moved to condemn a new government policy as unwise or unclear, and sometimes downright dangerous.
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Comment
Media Watch: social marketing
The NHS is in the middle of a social marketing drive the like of which has never been seen before.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on security under threat
'What I'd really like for 2009,' said my friend Kate, 'is a man with an enormous pension.'
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Comment
Simon Stevens on an NHS game plan for 2009
Happy New Year. Or is it? With so much talk of recession and economic gloom, it's easy to forget the NHS's benign position, compared with - say - the car industry, retail, or financial services.
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News
Emma Dent on mobiles in hospitals
So the ban on mobile phone use in hospitals is being relaxed. Not that patients had been taking any notice of it in the first place.
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Comment
Media Watch: DH salaries
Since everything is about money at the moment, it is perhaps no surprise that enterprising politicians have been totting up what the NHS and government spend on everything from celebrities to Department of Health officials.
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Comment
Michael White on public health nudges
I was relaxing on the South Island of New Zealand and just about to throw away what had been a very nice bottle of local sauvignon blanc when I noticed a detail on the label.
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Comment
Stephen Ramden on keeping failure in mind
'It could never happen here…' These are five words that sent a chill up chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson's spine.
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Comment
Media Watch: NHS Blackpool
Anyone still planning their Christmas celebrations may wish to take heed of the recent experience of NHS Blackpool.