Comment archive – Page 411
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Jenny Rogers on forced fun
I have a memory: my one-year-old child is squatting in the kitchen looking a touch restless. Feeling it my maternal duty to play, I approach with a synthetic 'let's-have-fun' voice.
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Andrew Jones on achieving quality care
Piloting the NHS towards quality requires robust regulation and inspection, and the DH has already set up overlapping organisations to provide this, presumably with a thinly spread budget. But if Lord Darzi's plan is to be accomplished, it will require action rather than rhetoric, and action requires funding.
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Naomi Chambers on grumpy boards
With Lord Darzi's review of the NHS casting an uncertain light on the role of boards, some members might be forgiven for becoming tetchy, mistrustful, grumbling souls who always seem to be on the defensive
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Divide and rule: time for the UK to debate its four health systems
Among the oceans of data washing around the NHS, it is striking that government has avoided collecting one of the most illuminating sets of figures - comparisons between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Clinical code-breaking jeopardises safety
The Audit Commission's exposure of a high error rate in clinical coding has an impact far beyond payment by results.
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Your Humble Servant on co-payments and co-operation
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: No-payment?
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Media Watch: teenage time bomb
The NHS is facing a 'teenage time bomb', several newspapers warned this week, based on statistics showing increased admissions of young people to hospital.
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Noel Plumridge on a family tragedy
When the mobile phone leaps into life before 8am, it's usually ominous. Yesterday was no exception, with a text from my sister Amy: 'Tony has been in a terrible accident and is fighting 4 his life. Everyone pls pray 4 him.'
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Michael White on the golden age of the NHS
I have been sitting in patchy sunshine reading Rejuvenate or Retire? the Nuffield Trust's anthology to mark the NHS 60th anniversary.
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Ginette Camps-Walsh on measuring patient satisfaction
Lord Darzi's next stage review sets out that the NHS will begin systematically measuring and publishing information about the quality of the care it provides. Measures will include patients' views on the success of their treatment and the quality of their experiences.
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David Levy on the changing face of clinical leadership
Clinical leadership is changing in response to Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, but the changes have not been uniform across the health community.
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Lisa Rodrigues on foundation trust tips
Well, we did it. Sussex Partnership foundation trust - a teaching trust of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School - was born on 1 August 2008.
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Ken Jarrold on Darzi and nursing
While Lord Darzi's review of the NHS is to be warmly supported, it is astonishing that it contains almost no reference to nursing or to ward and team leaders.
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David Lee on integrating care
Two recent phone calls from different parts of the country got me thinking about what good management can do to make mental health and social care systems tick.
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Stephen Pearson on partnership working
At the NHS Confederation conference, a group of mainly NHS managers was asked whether anyone thought working with the private sector was a bad idea. That no-one put their hand up is an indication of how far the NHS has come on partnership working.
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Andrea Sutcliffe on transforming the NHS
NHS 60 week was full of celebration of the past and, as Lord Darzi unveiled his plans for the next 10 years, full of promise for the future.
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Beleaguered NICE is powerless to call off postcode lottery
The NHS is caught in a media storm over access to drugs, with NICE at the centre.
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Patients have a right to know about mortality rates
The argument in the West Midlands over interpreting mortality rates is just a taste of the rows that will ensue once the Department of Health starts publishing outcomes data.
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Media Watch: overweight children
The issue of overweight children, always a popular topic, was widely reported this week.
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Michael White on pandemic flu
Did you clock the government's new national risk register, published by the Cabinet Office? It was widely reported as putting pandemic flu as potentially the most lethal threat mankind is facing.