All Primary care articles – Page 292

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'As junior doctors struggle to find work The Sunday Times claimed that the Department of Health survey on GP workload would show that family doctors were earning more and working less'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'

  • News

    PCTs oppose Manchester maternity shake-up

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a shake-up of children's and maternity services in Manchester are under fire because one corner of the city could be left without inpatient services.

  • News

    PCTs want new look at politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The relationship between the NHS and politicians needs to be 'redefined', according to an NHS Confederation poll of primary care trust managers.