Comment archive – Page 441
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Andrew Jones on the Pandora's box of GP access
Improved access to family doctors may not be all it is cracked up to be.
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Media Watch: Cornwall trust achieves YouTube fame
Just when the managers at Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust thought things could not get much worse, medical staff released a video mocking its performance.
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Michael White on getting tough on obesity
Politicians need to do more to tackle the growing obesity problem
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Your Humble Servant: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Whoever said the British had no stomach for public executions? Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has demonstrated just how popular they can be.
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Foundation trust applicants face an uncertain future
It is widely accepted that the target for all trusts to become foundations by December 2008 will not be met. But what is the future for those that will not make the grade?
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Anna Donald on healthcare in Australia
Returning to Australia from the UK brings to mind the differences betwen the two countries' healthcare systems, in particular Australia's clear separation of insurance and provider powers
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Primary care's big challenge is acting on great expectations
One of the stated aims in the Department of Health's vision of world class commissioning is to eliminate health inequalities. Not to reduce them, but to get rid of them altogether.
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Duleep Allirajah on making patients' voices heard
Proclaiming the virtues of choice and voice is all well and good, but what are primary care trusts doing to strengthen patients' involvement in commissioning?
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Looky likey
More actorly looky likeys. In addition to having a rather hard to pronounce surname it has struck us that junior minister Dawn Primarolo bears something of a resemblance to actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis. Do other members of the ministerial health teams have looky likeys? Let us know at ...
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All Our Yesterdays
October 31, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewAt the Bridgwater Institution, a male officer (resident) with a quite diverse range of skills was required. Said officer had to be able to undertake the shaving and haircutting of inmates and was also required to have a knowledge of ...
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David Peat on ending the enslavement of health inequalities
Overcoming health inequalities that have built up over generations will take vision and determination
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Sophia Christie on collective commissioning
Commissioning needs to be reformed and strengthened at every level, writes Sophia Christie
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Emma Dent goes round the houses
In this column last time I reported on our stressful attempts to buy a house. Well, the stress has stopped. Because we are not buying a house any more.
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Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'.
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Health check: Foundations lead the pack but PCTs still fighting in the rear
The wealth of data unveiled today by the Healthcare Commission in its annual trust health check reveals foundation trusts are thriving, primary care trusts are struggling, and the best are leaving the rest behind.
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Health check: does the NHS want for good management?
It is the struggle to shift the trusts hanging around near the centre of the annual health check which is most perplexing the Healthcare Commission.
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Junior doctors face a difficult job market
Already bruised by MTAS, junior doctors are now feeling the effects of market competition - but did the DoH bungle its workforce planning, asks Noel Plumridge, or did it know what it was doing all along?
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Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Martin Kedge on reaching out to sick children
Charity WellChild plays a crucial role in highlighting the needs of children with long-term illnesses, writes Kedge Martin
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Weird world health
You never know what you've got til it's gone. As one Mark Smith of Newtown, south Wales, has found out after being banned under an Asbo from entering any NHS premises in the UK. Singularly capable of wrecking any trust's attemtps to meet the four hour A&E target, Mr Smith ...