All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 62
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Michael White on this year's Labour conference
I filed this column, from Labour's Bournemouth conference, a little later than usual this week. Gordon Brown had brought the annual leader's speech forward by 24 hours (he is in such a hurry, that man) and I wanted to catch what he had to say.
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Noel Plumridge on lessons from Northern Rock
Healthcare providers should not ignore the difficulties facing other sectors, writes Noel Plumridge
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Your Humble Servant on nurses and news from planet Monitor
The Department of Health’s main drive is to get the nurses not to be so grotty, while on planet Monitor they are celebrating a multi-million-pound foundation trust surplus.
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Michael White on the conference season
'The conference experience is to go home feeling that whatever interest brought you, it is worth doing for the rest of the year'
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Dave Lee on Darzi's tour
'Mental health has occasionally painted itself as the eternal Cinderella, with the result that some commissioners feel obliged to treat it accordingly'
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Media Watch: breaking the habit
This week columnists seized on the case of a smoker apparently denied an NHS operation to fix his broken ankle unless he gives up a 20-a-day habit.
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Sophia Christie on facing up to diversity
'Her one-year-old's diet was two packets of crisps a day and a glass of milk'
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Emma Dent at the dentist
'Half an hour later I would emerge bleary-eyed, in pain and incapable of eating for days'
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Michael White on panic politics
'I imagined patients queuing outside their local hospital, just like Northern Rock'
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Your Humble Servant: do as I say
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Do as I say not as I doDear DonI gather your fact-finding summer visit to South Africa with Mrs Wise and the children went well. Your thoughts on ambulance response times on safari have given our colleagues down there much ...
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David Amos on the case for change
'The experience of the Blitz was used as evidence that, on the whole, people wanted to stay put - sixty years later, and the NHS is at it again.'
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Your Humble Servant: Hamish Meldrum on the GP stall
To Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: In my back yardDear DonIt was healthcare market day in the high street yesterday so I decided to pop down and see if there were any bargains to be had.As I arrived, there was Hamish Meldrum on the GP stall.Hamish ...
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Emma Dent gets wheels
'Traffic? If said reader is disturbed by the traffic in Lancaster they had better never come to HSJ towers, where it frequently feels like we are perched on the edge of the M1'
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Alan Maynard on medical safety
'It may be efficient to let marginal patients die from avoidable infections'
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Frank Burns on championing the champions
'We need to encourage the champions and enthusiasts who are still out there'
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Lyn Whitfield on information creep
'Sooner or later the NHS will be caught up in a major scandal involving records'
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Paul Robinson on double standards
'Both the independent sector and the NHS collect data - but different items for different purposes, making direct comparisons virtually impossible'
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Shak Gohir on new media
A deep-vein thrombosis diagnosis project is part of the new generation of high-quality medical information, say Shak Gohir and Eve Knight
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Your Humble Servant: The Darzi Ultimatum
‘I know the director of nursing was impressed that you poked her’
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Andrew Castle on the perfect process
'Just knowing what should be happening, or what we think is happening, does not help us make informed decisions'