All Comment articles – Page 321
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Silence can mean fear, not support
'One can understand why anxiety, uncertainty and fear rule'
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Money no excuse for hampering progress
As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision
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Petitions can a play role in local engagement
EM Forster famously gave democracy two cheers; the NHS seems rather less enthused.
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Is this really the end of under-capacity?
Financial incentives and technology mean inpatient demand and length of stay are falling, although the population is ageing. In 10 years waiting lists will be a thing of the past say Celine Druilhe and Eric Louie
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Early learning is key weapon in obesity war
Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall
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Dr Marc Farr on understanding preventable injury
In February, the National Audit Office called the number of accidental injuries across the country a 'disgrace', with 2 million children a year visiting accident and emergency due to an accident.
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Moving down the line to financial stability
The recent merger of two acute trusts hints at things to come as struggling organisations are forced to re-examine their options. Chris Ham surveys the new structural landscape of the health service
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Laura Donnelly on overlooking talent
I heard a good story once about David Nicholson. Along with the rest of the 28 strategic health authority chief executives, he was waiting to meet health secretary Patricia Hewitt for the first time. A colleague turned to him: 'Well, David, when you met John Reid you told him you ...
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Laura Donnelly on thoughts at last orders
'I used to be frightened when a colleague wore a Virginia Bottomley mask in times of stress'
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Michael White: junior doctors
'Hewitt would have watched footage of Cameron being cheered by a throng of angry junior doctors with some alarm'
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Wanted: doctors to help redesign services
The need for more doctors to take on a management role has almost become a mantra, yet progress has been painfully slow. Penny Dash and Pam Garside examine the challenges and opportunities
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Media Watch: junior doctors
'How could they be so stupid?' asked the Daily Mail as it berated the government for failing to ensure junior doctors will be guaranteed jobs this summer in the Department of Health's new recruitment process.
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Overtime work and incentivising doctors
I am slightly amused that the '75 per cent.NHS workers do unpaid overtime' article is in the 'news' section. I qualified in 1983 and it has certainly been the norm for me for the last 24 years.
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Media Watch: doctor MoTs
If you'd just open the bonnet now, Dr Cameron, and we'll be through with your MoT for another five years. Before you know it, young Dr Finlay will be up for his MoT too.
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Simon Stevens on a summer of discontent
'So as we head into TUC and party conference season, by comparison things actually look pretty tame here. Part of the problem is the way international health comparisons are used - and abused.'
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Emma Dent on the dreaded lurgy
I have written before about my non-scientfic diagnosis of this condition, where tired bodies succumb to bugs and germs. I think it might be a sign that I should take a holiday
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Michael White on the 'demise' of nursing
Sometimes the political weather seems to follow the climatic version. So it was no surprise during the snow to read a mild-mannered press release about training patterns under the lurid headline that we face 'the demise of nursing' in Britain.
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In defence of e-patient records
It hasn't been often over the last few years that I have found myself agreeing with ITRichard Granger (News, 3 May) but here here!
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Managers must dig deep for new skill set
Overcoming complex NHS management challenges - insularity, short-termism and a sometimes crippling hierarchy - will require major changes to the way managers operate, argues Nigel Edwards