All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 60
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Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinician-led management
Why don't we accept the need for inspiring leaders, wherever they come from?
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Emma Dent on hospital phobia
HSJ Towers has recently been swelled with the arrival of many other magazines published by our parent company - previously we were scattered in offices across London.
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Media Watch: waiting times
If the Department of Health hoped for some good press on the latest waiting times, then it should have known better.
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Richard Gleave on Michael Moore's Sicko
As the US enters the next presidential campaign, Michael Moore's film Sicko has reignited the debate about healthcare
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Your Humble Servant on the annual health check ratings
We are all terribly proud of the huge improvement we have achieved in the annual health check under your leadership. The fair and fair rating shows just how far we have come in five years. Surely the next stop is foundation trust status?
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Media Watch: transplant deaths at Papworth
This week Papworth Hospital in Cambridge found itself at the centre of a media storm. More used to making headlines about pioneering treatment, the hospital was in the spotlight as its heart transplants were halted due to an unexplained rise in death rates.
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Noel Plumridge on finding the right GP
Is it worthwhile to register with a GP when there are other alternatives available?
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Michael White on immigration and the NHS
As old favourites like immigration and NHS pay resurfaced in public debate, a conversation I overheard in a Berkshire pub years ago popped up again this week.
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Maggie Rae on how to foster organisational development
When I moved from Scotland to England some colloquialisms did not travel well while some enjoyed a more universal understanding. One phrase that did travel well is 'walking the talk', the importance of actually doing what you said you would do - the mark of good management and leadership
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Simon Stevens on choice and midwifery
We could be getting a lot more out of our midwifery services if they were organised differently
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Emma Dent on getting recognition
Everyone, even health policy journalists, needs little rewards to brighten up the working day. I am always really quite chuffed when a reader rings, e-mails or stops me in the street to tell me they enjoyed one of my features - or even one of these columns.
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Media Watch: out-of-hours and overseas
Hospitals 'swamped by out-of-hours care failure' read a Daily Telegraph headline this week. It was telling readers that accident and emergency departments are being 'inundated' by patients with minor ailments because GP out-of-hours services are 'so poor'.
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Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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Dave Lee on mental health stigma
Stigma is one of those words used so frequently in the mental health field that you almost expect it to be an acronym for something else. Tackling it is certainly one of the great challenges in mental health, and an area mental health foundation trust applicants are almost statutorily optimistic ...
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Andrew Castle on improving procurement processes
Collecting and interpreting data is an essential part of supply chain management
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Media Watch: Cornwall trust achieves YouTube fame
Just when the managers at Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust thought things could not get much worse, medical staff released a video mocking its performance.
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Anna Donald on healthcare in Australia
Returning to Australia from the UK brings to mind the differences betwen the two countries' healthcare systems, in particular Australia's clear separation of insurance and provider powers
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Michael White on getting tough on obesity
Politicians need to do more to tackle the growing obesity problem
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Your Humble Servant: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Whoever said the British had no stomach for public executions? Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has demonstrated just how popular they can be.