Comment archive – Page 308
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CommentMedia Watch: RCN congress sparks raft of health warnings
Health policy in the news this week.
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CommentReaders' letters - 17 May 2012
How advoates can improve clinical engagement, and why the veto on publishing the risk register is a threat to patient safety
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CommentWill economic problems finally fix London health care?
And, can London focus on the future when the present is so tough?
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Comment'Clinical engagement cannot be considered too expensive now'
HSJ interviews Dr Richard Bohmer on the scale of challenge facing NHS organisations.
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CommentMichael White: driving down the cost of drug deals
The NHS should have little sympathy for Big Pharma.
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CommentDavid Worskett: implementing reforms requires collaborative open minds
It’s time to discuss the practical business of healthcare.
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CommentReaders' letters – 10 May 2012
There’s no place for gags about the Samaritans. Plus, commissioners must not rule out telehealth yet
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CommentSally Gainsbury: new bailouts required for new deficits
One dastardly deficit decision and where it got us.
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LeaderHow many care scandals are we missing as reform rolls on?
Reforms’ upheaval threatens care quality and safety.
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CommentSue Slipman: there must be a line between management and regulation
The trouble with troubleshooters.
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Comment'The reforms could be the coalition's poll tax'
We will know by 2015 whether the public’s NHS experiences mean Andrew Lansley has pulled off this massive gamble, says Ipsos MORI’s chief executive Ben Page.
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CommentMichael White: power is there to be taken by the bold
Don’t assume CCGs know what their “assumed liberty” means.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the reinvestment riddle
Where is the process for reinvesting the Nicholson efficiency savings?
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LeaderThe fairness debate will put health back on the front pages
The health sector’s low profile won’t last long.
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CommentMedia Watch: 'carb up' to cope with surgery trauma, advises Keogh
Health policy in the media this week.
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CommentReaders' letters – 3 May 2012
Why revalidation should inform doctors’ professional development, and NHS 111 rollout fears
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Health charities can help rescue the innovation drive
The challenging QIPP targets NHS is aiming to achieve can be helped by the voluntary sector, argues Marie Curie Cancer Care chief executive Thomas Hughes-hallet.
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CommentUnemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
Public health work at one primary care trust has shown how unemployment could have massive impact on a generation’s life expectancy, and why it’s important they get back to work. John Middleton reports.
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Comment'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'
Devi Shetty – nicknamed the Henry Ford of heart surgery – believes developments such as computerised diagnoses and technicians doing the work of highly trained medics are just around the corner. Ben Clover hears his ideas for the future of medicine.
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CommentNigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
Does the Health Act leave Lansley powerless?