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Michael White on immigration and the NHS
As old favourites like immigration and NHS pay resurfaced in public debate, a conversation I overheard in a Berkshire pub years ago popped up again this week.
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Media Watch: transplant deaths at Papworth
This week Papworth Hospital in Cambridge found itself at the centre of a media storm. More used to making headlines about pioneering treatment, the hospital was in the spotlight as its heart transplants were halted due to an unexplained rise in death rates.
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Payment by results: top-up scheme clears the way for back-door reconfiguration
The changes to the tariff for specialist services revealed in this week's HSJ risk inflaming public opinion just as Lord Darzi's review is supposed to be restoring confidence in how reconfigurations are managed.
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Chief executive pay-offs raise doubts about local control
Don't be taken in by ministerial hot air on their belief in local decision-making. The latest move after the Clostridium difficile deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust demonstrates that soundbites, press releases and the irresistible urge to be seen to be doing something still take precedence over sensible government.
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Noel Plumridge on finding the right GP
Is it worthwhile to register with a GP when there are other alternatives available?
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Telecare - improving the lives of patients with COPD
Fatima Holt explains how telecare is helping to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a primary care setting, for more timely and effective care
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Great progress has been made in GP access
Your recent editorial 'GP access dispute reveals holes in Darzi's rushed report' did not reflect the significant improvements that have been made in access to GPs, writes health minister Ben Bradshaw
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Weird world health
This Facebook lark continues to take hold in the NHS. We were sent a press release from South West Yorkshire Mental Health trust, which is embracing the social networking site to help it encourage local people to get involved with the trust.It wants its group, With all of us in ...
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This week's looky likey
A double whammy look alike this week - another thespian resemblance and another member of the government's health team as National Association of Primary Care office manager Sally Kitt writes to point out that the dapper Ben Bradshaw is not unlike Hugh Grant.
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All Our Yesterdays
November 14, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review'Treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer: As soon as a diagnosis of peptic ulcer has been made the patient should be put to bed for a week or more and thereafter for several weeks should spend most of his time ...
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Lisa Rodrigues on staying connected
Keeping in contact with one another is important, whether it is through social networking sites or old-fashioned conversations
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Emma Dent on getting recognition
Everyone, even health policy journalists, needs little rewards to brighten up the working day. I am always really quite chuffed when a reader rings, e-mails or stops me in the street to tell me they enjoyed one of my features - or even one of these columns.
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Overseas workers are getting a raw deal
The Local Government Association's report on the impact of migration presents a powerful case for more funding of public services in areas experiencing the sharpest increases in demand.
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Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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Media Watch: out-of-hours and overseas
Hospitals 'swamped by out-of-hours care failure' read a Daily Telegraph headline this week. It was telling readers that accident and emergency departments are being 'inundated' by patients with minor ailments because GP out-of-hours services are 'so poor'.
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Simon Stevens on choice and midwifery
We could be getting a lot more out of our midwifery services if they were organised differently
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GP access dispute reveals holes in Darzi's rushed report
Does the Department of Health know what it is doing on GP access?
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Paul Malcolm on centralising IT systems
The national IT programme has the potential to bring huge benefits to patients and healthcare workers - but tight security is key
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All Our Yesterdays
November 6, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewThe work of the joint vagrancy authorities; 'decisions on medical examinations and removal of aged from the road' was discussed in the Journal this week.The financial officer reported that the costs of maintaining causal wards as falling in accordance to ...
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GP shortage story still rings true today
Just a note to congratulate HSJ on its prescience in publishing an article of mine ('Weight watchers', 1996 106(5501), 28-30) which predated by 11 years the current concern of health secretary Alan Johnson and junior health minister Lord Darzi about the shortage of GPs in poor health areas, writes John ...