All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 55
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Maggie Rae on spending time in general practice
Sometimes it is good to see the world from another viewpoint. We can all get very focused on our priorities, roles and responsibilities. Occasionally it can be worth swapping seats and seeing how the world looks from a new angle.
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Media Watch: anti-infection alligators
The leech has long been recognised as the doctor's friend. Now another swamp creature is crawling to the forefront of healthcare.
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Michael White on biosimilars and generics
At my bus-pass holding time of life, you don't often come across a word whose meaning you could no more guess at than a street sign in Tokyo. It happened to me when trawling Hansard the other day. The word was 'biosimilars'.
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Noel Plumridge on boardroom drama
The setting: A hospital boardroom. A meeting of the executive team of an NHS trust is about to take place.
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Your Humble Servant celebrates a record profit for the NHS
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Bonanza
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Lesley Wright on visual control
One of the four principal elements in Lean is visual control. We use visual control in everyday life, without a second thought.
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Emma Dent on staying away from cigarettes
The other day, smoking cessation workers from the local primary care trust were stationed outside HSJ Towers and the nearby Tube station.
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Michael White on patient choice
Well, well, a stormy end to the Easter season. The Tories rampaged against perceived failures in the government's commitment to deep clean NHS hospitals.
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Media Watch: deep clean
The government's deep clean and choice initiatives caused a big stink this week.
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Simon Stevens on improving payment by results
In my last column, I discussed evidence on how payment by results is actually working.
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David Lee on foundation trust members
Foundation trusts are facing an increased focus on their membership development performance.
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Jon Restell on valuing all frontline staff
I have had the people who work in general practice on my mind recently. At this time of especially heightened clinical engagement, it is easier than ever to forget that good healthcare is delivered by teams.
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Your Humble Servant on Nicholson's blog
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: blogs and Zogs
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Media Watch: cigarette sales
'Cigarettes could soon be sold under the counter, just like X-rated magazines once were,' revealed the Daily Star, reporting on Department of Health plans.
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Michael White on service cuts
On the dry pages of Hansard, there are occasionally brief exchanges that shed light on life as eloquently as a short story by Anton Chekhov.
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David Amos on directing talent
2008 could be the year that the widespread development of talented frontline staff and the spotting of potential senior staff takes centre stage in the NHS.
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Paul Jennings on football-friendly marketing
Through an ongoing commitment to social marketing in health, we have been looking for ways that newer technologies could work for us in delivering messages to target groups.
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Michael White: budget politics
No point in spending too much time on this year's Budget, I think, which wasn't much of an NHS event anyway. I'm all for optimism about the future, but Alistair Darling's low-key confidence a week ago has already been overtaken by the gathering financial storm in the Atlantic. Fasten seatbelts.
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Emma Dent calls for green spaces without the public urinating
One of the things I like best about London is that despite being big, dirty, crowded and at times downright chaotic, its allocation of green spaces is among the most generous for any capital city in the world.
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Sophia Christie on fighting change
Besieged by change, senior managers in the NHS are adept at resisting it while apparently leading it.