Comment archive – Page 298
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CommentSavile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: to have and have not
Commissioners dream of stockings bulging with giant recurring uplifts
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LeaderJeremy Hunt: More a Dorrell than a Lansley
The need to assure and reassure is behind the commissioning board’s £12bn budget
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CommentOur own cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine in the UK is facing its biggest challenge since its inception
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CommentMichael White: never say never
We have heard a lot this week about “never events”, which aren’t supposed to happen in the NHS.
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Comment‘The Health Act is a car crash and that’s a shame’
‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond, the thinker behind the Big Society, talks about how to put it right
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CommentWhistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
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CommentThe board's first challenges
The commissioning board face difficult times ahead with the weight of expectation heavy
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CommentA fair deal for older people
One of the clearest signs of medical and social progress in the post-NHS era is the leap in life expectancy
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CommentAli Parsa on the big society
Why sell the Big Society when there’s a big crash to deal with?
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CommentNick Partridge on volunteers
We relied on unpaid volunteers to comfort those coping with what was then a terminal illness
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CommentReaders' letters – 25 October 2012
Bexley Council responds to our claim that social care in the borough is ‘failing’; and how a service has made it easier for patients to get repeat prescriptions
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CommentYour Humble Servant: heroic failure
“We both know that the only way Monitor will pass us is if we treat a lot fewer patients, with even fewer staff and minimal kit”
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CommentAt last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
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CommentA perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
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LeaderRevalidation cannot be left to GMC alone
Will boards have the influence necessary to make medics take revalidation seriously?
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CommentMichael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
Labour are asking tough questions about the affordability of Scotland’s healthcare
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CommentIs choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
Will choice hit the vulnerable or drive up standards?
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CommentHow competition can help community services
Why choice does not always lead to privatisation