External contributors – Page 298
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Lyn Whitfield on information creep
'Sooner or later the NHS will be caught up in a major scandal involving records'
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Alan Maynard on medical safety
'It may be efficient to let marginal patients die from avoidable infections'
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Healthy Schools is raising the bar, not slipping behind
I am pleased that HSJ recently chose to publish an article on the National Healthy Schools Programme, emphasising its importance as a good example of health and education collaboration at the local level (see 'A game for two players'.)
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Your Humble Servant: The Darzi Ultimatum
‘I know the director of nursing was impressed that you poked her’
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Noel Plumridge on ambition to expand
'Market advocates praise choice, but those within them do their best to create a monopoly'
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Timely action will save lives and restore public confidence
'Media coverage of mental health killings obliterates shades of grey'
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Misleading forecasts could spell disaster
'Chief executives and others must encourage openness and transparency in financial reporting'
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Media Watch
There's a whiff of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt's infamous map of NHS-trouble-spots-which-could-cost-Labour-MPs-their-seats to the weekend's coverage of service changes in Greater Manchester.
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Paul James on sustainable IT
The fate of worn-out electrical equipment may not seem a top priority but new environmental regulations may have caught managers in the health service napping, says Paul James
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Hilary Thomas on differing points of view
Regulations should enable hospital and community settings to work together on care appraisals, says Hilary Thomas
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Introducing direct payments into care homes
Direct payment budgets could be extended to people living in care settings to allow residents to make individual choices from healthcare services available to them, says David Janner-Klausner
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Community engagement needed to combat elder abuse
The shocking report of the parliamentary joint committee on human rights again reveals alarming levels of elder abuse and poor standards of care in hospitals and care homes.
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'New farmacy' is thriving abroad
In regards to HSJ's 2 August article on care farming, it is well worth exploring Dr Dixon’s suggestions for the new ‘farmacy’ and looking at what other countries have done for decades.
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Media Watch
Managers could breathe a sigh of relief this week as the glare of the media spotlight was focusing on money-grabbing GPs as opposed to bureaucrats.
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Michael White on politics
'No-one blew the whistle hard enough when the new processes started looking flawed'
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GPs' fading popularity could hurt Tories
'Not so long ago, local family doctors were running a close third to apple pie and motherhood in the list of safe things for politicians to support'
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Simon Stevens on junior doctors
'Junior doctors have in some respects been their own worst enemy'
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Neil Goodwin on the principles of success
'Organisations that do not have a culture in which open discussion is encouraged will bury their mistakes and not learn from them'