All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 53
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Media Watch: polyclinic plans
It seems even apparently mild-mannered Alan Johnson can snap. After months of doctors sniping at polyclinics, he did - via The Observer.
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David Amos on NHS apprenticeships
Last autumn, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech to the Communist Party congress entitled, 'Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive for New Victories in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in all Respects'.
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Paul Jennings on listening to staff
Improving communication with staff took Walsall Teaching primary care trust from the bottom 10 per cent to the top 10 per cent in the national staff survey
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Jon Restell on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Are managers going to be unwelcome guests at the NHS's 60th birthday party in July and merely bit players in the next instalment of the next stage review?
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Your Humble Servant: Confed blues
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Fancy phrases
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Media Watch: co-payment 'madness'
The fraught issue of 'co-payment' was one of the biggest health service stories this week, following the death of Linda O'Boyle from bowel cancer.
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Michael White on private vs public
The detail I am most likely to remember from this week's events is the revelation that when Harold Macmillan was chancellor in 1956 he suppressed evidence of the link between cancer and smoking.
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Lesley Wright on standardising work
Anyone planning a holiday that involves flying will have to have faith in the skills of a highly trained pilot and navigator to get them to their destination.
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Media Watch: bets on Johnson
Managers may be tempted to swell trust coffers by taking a punt on health secretary Alan Johnson to be prime minister, with most papers quoting odds of six to one to replace Gordon Brown.
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Sophia Christie on world class organisations
The assurance process for world class commissioning is developing apace but with no national development programme, many in primary care trusts are wondering where to focus attention.
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Michael White on dementia services
Being in government is a bit like fighting forest fires, the kind that sweep through tinder-dry acres in countries a lot hotter than ours.
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Emma Dent on GPs and drinking habits
So I registered with a new GP. Once I had finally found one it was a pleasantly pain-free experience.
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Michael White on the embryology bill
Another roller-coaster week as ministers and MPs engage in close combat over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill with one hand, while battling to maintain momentum on NHS reform with the other.
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Your Humble Servant: leaving the NHS
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Don't pay out, look up
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Noel Plumridge on why safety is just a ritual
A Flybe flight from Southampton to Leeds-Bradford. Through security and reunited with belt and shoes. The flight is called. Walk across the tarmac, climb the stairs and claim seat 4A.
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Media Watch: the IT programme
Pity the poor chap on the IT helpdesk when the NHS rings up. For when it comes to sorting out the service's new computer system it's not simply a question of switching it off and on again.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on customer service
It may not have escaped your notice that I have moved on from King's College Hospital foundation trust to a new role at University Hospitals of Leicester trust.
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Media Watch: Darzi shake-up
Managers must brace themselves as junior minister Lord Darzi's shake-up is unveiled. 'Ministers are preparing for a summer of protest as residents campaign against proposals that could mean local hospitals losing specialist services to large regional centres,' reported The Daily Telegraph.
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Michael White on Darzi's plans
How hard it is to get your message across when opinion turns against you, let alone when Prezza, Cherie and Lord Levy are all trying to sell books, as the government has been demonstrating this past week.
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Emma Dent on finding a GP
So 12 primary care trusts are getting additional cash to fund a new GP practice per patch. And my PCT is not among them. (Although a neighbouring London PCT is. Is GP access alone enough of a reason to move to the 'burbs? Hmm.)