All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 56
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Media Watch: Olympic health worries
'I would rather be in music than in politics,' said health secretary Alan Johnson in an interview with The Observer's Music Monthly magazine.
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Stephen Ramsden on stability in leadership
This month I celebrate 10 years as chief executive of Luton and Dunstable Hospital. For the first few years, I concentrated on building an environment of trust and respect between managers and doctors.
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Michael White on Darling's budget
By the time you read this, Alistair Darling's first Budget will have reinforced Gordon Brown's latest promise to make our great public services more competitive and accountable to their customers. They are all Blairites now.
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Your Humble Servant: carry on nurses
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Ooh you are awful, but I like you
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Media Watch: drug maker under scrutiny
Being accused of 'cheating the NHS' is enough to give anyone heartburn. So bosses at Reckitt Benckiser, makers of indigestion treatment Gaviscon, may well have sought comfort with a taste of their own medicine this week.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the role of FT governors
Foundation trust governors can and should exercise their influence in the wider community to benefit service users
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Kate Silvester on lean or just mean
Managing a system where all patients get their first definitive treatment within 18 weeks of GP referral will sort the mean from the lean thinkers.
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Andrew Castle on innovations in patient safety
Standardising clinical practice can go a long way towards improving patient safety, as one innovative programme in the US has shown. Andrew Castle explains
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Media Watch: nurses under attack
It seems it's fine to rant about lazy, greedy doctors, but dare to criticise nurses and all hell breaks loose.
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Michael White on health budgets
Opposition spokesmen as energetic as Andrew Lansley tend to respond to breaking news rather than to make it. It's the curse of opposition. When they're in the headlines it's usually bad news. The Tory health spokesman has been making headlines.
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Noel Plumridge on topping up NHS care
It is a long time since NHS care was unequivocally free. Over half a century ago, in the final days of a post-war Labour government that was proud to nationalise not just healthcare but the 'commanding heights' of the British economy - coal, steel, the railways - a certain outspoken ...
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Emma Dent on having a drink
As I believe I have written here before, I have thought for some time that I would make a lousy alcoholic because I get terrible hangovers. Just thinking about my top five worst-ever mornings-after of all time makes me feel queasy.
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Richard Gleave on healthcare wholesalers
Mastering the latest management jargon is as much of a skill in the US as it is in the NHS. Even after several months, I am still a novice and get especially confused by the sporting analogies: it is easy to guess what is meant by a 'play book', but ...
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Your Humble Servant: the Fresh Approach to Cash Alternatives Team
To: Don Wise, chief executiveDear Don, as you can imagine, GPs are very agitated at the moment.
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Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices
When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same.
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Media Watch
'A new centre for binge drinking has been identified in the heart of London,' reports The Sunday Times.
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Michael White on politics
In more innocent days, when a protester smuggled horse manure into the Commons public gallery one of us coined the joke 'Ordure, ordure' for Mr Speaker to utter.
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Jon Restell on looking after managers
Managers in healthcare need to do more than ever to look after their staff. I don't have a problem with this; it's the right thing to be doing.
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Emma Dent on the common cold
I have a new hobby: blowing my nose. Not the most riveting of pastimes but my hope is that framing said activity in this way will make it seem less like a chore and more of a fun way to pass the time.
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Maggie Rae on Premier League performance
Do names matter? Since arriving back in the NHS and PCT land, I haven't had much chance to think about titles or the name of our organisation.