Comment archive – Page 293
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CommentVideo: Mike Farrar reacts to Francis
NHS leaders must be more open with patients “than ever before”
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CommentWe can achieve a paperless NHS by 2018
The 2018 target is achievable with the right focus and effort
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CommentMy five-year journey reporting on Mid Staffs
Reporter and witness Shaun Lintern recalls a disturbing story
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LeaderCCGs confident but still deliver a kick to the regions
Confident CCGs deride their relationships with regional teams
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CommentWe need to have belief in a paperless NHS
Not everyone has been convinced about the benefits of the tech revolution
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CommentA vison for better mental healthcare
Acceptance, choice and dignity should be central to care
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CommentSally Gainsbury: putting a stopper on bungs
The DH and Monitor are in a quandry over EU competition rules
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LeaderCCGs' financial fears resurface
Leaders’ “worst dream” of recurring deficits is far from over.
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Readers' letters - 31 January 2013
This week’s letters include NHS Property Services chief Simon Holden responding to HSJ’s story about the company charging CCGs and a counter to Sir David Nicholson’s view that hospitals “very bad places” for older people’s care
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CommentCut the platitudes and get staff motivated
Sustainable change depends on having staff that care
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Comment‘There are so many channels, each one can have a role’
Russ Lidstone, chief executive of advertising agency Havas Worldwide London, explains how the NHS can move further into the digital age and take advantage of the many ways it can effectively engage the public
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CommentLindsey Davies on giving health messages clout
Marketing should be at the heart of public health and health and care services
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CommentMichael White: Burnham's big leap
Burnham’s plans for the NHS finally embrace social care and its implications
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CommentHunt's call on South London will affect the whole NHS
The impact will go far beyond Lewisham Hospital
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CommentThe NHS has forgotten the meaning of 'service'
The latest reform slogan shouldn’t distract us from patient care
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We must back social investment pioneers
A new form of healthcare needs a fresh finance model
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CommentCan greater transparency expose future care failures?
The government sees openness as key to preventing failures
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CommentThe NHS cannot ignore DH underspends
The NHS must decide what has to go unspent if providers are to spend their surpluses
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LeaderBurnham’s radicalism resets care debate
Burnham proposes a system with more local democratic control
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Readers' letters − 24 January 2013
This week’s letters include a call for a change in attitudes to mental health and responses to HSJ’s exclusive interview with Sir David Nicholson, as well as making the case for the use of nutritional supplements in care homes