All Comment articles – Page 185
-
Comment
Michael White: MPs anxious to right a wrong
Ed Miliband made a rare leader’s speech on mental health
-
Comment
Robert Naylor on research
Over the past century, the UK has punched well above its weight in biomedical scientific discovery. Many of these achievements have been driven by leading hospital and university collaborations through a tripartite mission – top quality patient care, excellent education and world class research.The unique nature of the NHS and ...
-
Comment
Readers' letters - 1 November
Checks in place ensure over-the-counter inhalers are safe; and why is no one holding commissioners to account over abuse in care homes?
-
-
Comment
Sally Gainsbury: to have and have not
Commissioners dream of stockings bulging with giant recurring uplifts
-
Comment
Savile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
-
Comment
Our own cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine in the UK is facing its biggest challenge since its inception
-
Comment
Michael White: never say never
We have heard a lot this week about “never events”, which aren’t supposed to happen in the NHS.
-
Comment
Nick Partridge on volunteers
We relied on unpaid volunteers to comfort those coping with what was then a terminal illness
-
Comment
Your 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”
-
Comment
A 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
-
Comment
Whistle while you work - if you dare
Whisteblowing is publicly encouraged but privately still a dangerous business
-
Comment
The board's first challenges
The commissioning board face difficult times ahead with the weight of expectation heavy
-
Comment
Ali Parsa on the big society
Why sell the Big Society when there’s a big crash to deal with?
-
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
-
Comment
Readers' 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
-
Comment
A perverse take on incentives
There is a new twist to the long-running debate about perverse incentives in the NHS
-
Comment
At last, a consumer-led NHS?
Britain’s ‘rich complaining culture’ should be at the heart of an open NHS
-
Comment
Michael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
Labour are asking tough questions about the affordability of Scotland’s healthcare
-
Comment
Competition: waiting for that green light
We need to move the debate on from whether or not competition actually works