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Dispatching the New Labour ideal
As a participant in the Dispatches programme The NHS - Where did all the money go?, may I offer the following reflections to your correspondent Donald.Reid. He is right that there have been improvements in key areas, including waiting times.
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Your Humble Servant: life on Mars
‘The ambulance would be at least an hour and that they should do what first aid they could until the paramedics arrived’
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Decade of mental healthcare defined by unproductive debate
Mental health trust chief executives give their views of ten years under New Labour
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The importance of manager-doctor relationships
Training row emphasises the importance of collaboration
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Tristan Reuser on clinical engagement
The re-engineering of health systems requires traditional barriers between primary and secondary care to come down, writes Tristan Reuser
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Restoring confidence requires an end to financial fudges
.'With the NHS moving .towards a more transparent. market, top-down decisions. on the distribution of funds. must not become the norm.'.
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Look to the long term for 2020 vision on climate change
With front-page headlines this week warning that the UK's policies on climate change are set to achieve their 2020 milestone 30 years too late, the scale of the environmental challenge ahead becomes yet more daunting.
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Political bias on Dispatches
I am writing to complain about the recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme on the NHS, which was politically biased...
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Occupational therapists in the picture
I write with reference to the photograph on page 9 of HSJ on 15 February, 'Airedale gets rehabilitation down to a tea'.
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Gay-friendly employers
Stonewall is right in asserting the NHS has 'a long history of employing gays and lesbians' but unlike other minority groups, most remain invisible to their employers.
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The 'misery' of eliminating waste
I thought Noel Plumridge's description of the 'miserable territory of hunting down and eliminating waste' a little trite (HSJ, 22 February)..
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Payment by results and South Yorkshire
Noel Plumridge states (HSJ, 22 February) that there was 'never really payment by results; it was always payment for activity' and highlighted the need for incentives for clinicians.
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Falls in patients being added to waiting lists
John Appleby (Data briefing, HSJ, 22 February) highlighted the 'strange' improvements there have been in reducing the number of people on NHS waiting lists between 1997 and 2006.
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Unity will unlock gateway to success
Sir Ian Carruthers' two-month review of England's reconfiguration proposals urges much greater co-ordination of effort - a more united front to replace a series of skirmishes.
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Disaffection rules as chiefs mourn Alan Milburn's vision
Alan Milburn is the most popular New Labour health secretary, according to HSJ's survey of trust chief executives - not surprising when the same survey reveals the light that still burns brightly in people's hearts for the NHS plan.
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Water fluoridation
I was interested to read that Jessica Crowe uses water fluoridation as an example of a public health intervention that might provoke local protests, and that therefore overview and scrutiny committees (OSCs) might assist.
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Top thinkers hail power of imagination
If clinicians are the likely generators of the ideas that will transform NHS performance, managers need the confidence to create the space for them to blossom. Our main feature this week looks at a group of very different ideas with the potential to make a huge difference locally and nationally.
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Will is the way to win the patient safety war
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is aiming to prevent 5 million medical injuries through an improvement campaign in the US. Here Don Berwick says safety requires a passionate determination by managers