External contributors – Page 313
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Comment: Greater Manchester's health inequality woes resonate widely
'The Audit Commission report makes clear that reconfiguration 'is damaging the potential for more successful joint developments,' creating rifts and instability.'
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Why the NHS must wake up to the medical technology gap
If the UK is to match other advanced countries, major investment in technology is essential. But predicting real demand can be difficult. Joe Rafferty and colleagues may have the answer
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Andrew Jones on clinical management
A lack of understanding on either side only contributes to ludicrous meetings where the only obvious collective truth is self-preservation.
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Emma Dent on days off
'It's as if working in education, health or social care should be some kind of prolonged, low-level punishment rather than a fulfilling, rewarding experience.'
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Your Humble Servant: Cyborgs on order
'This was the latest shipment of cyborgs destined for NHS Direct, which included a model that could put over a thousand calls on hold per minute.'
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'Cross-cutting government initiatives on respect, anti-social behaviour, mental health and social inclusion and incapacity benefit are all beginning to emerge.'
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Comment: PCTs need certainty of consultations to innovate
'You cannot be certain of a consultation's outcome, however important to you, but that makes it all the more vital you are certain of the process.'
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Comment: Trusts feel squeeze from PCTs' tight grip
'Foundations should not be surprised if PCTs prove fierce negotiators this year. However, their complaint is about a lack of planning.'
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Hilary Thomas on clinical management
'My unwanted effects present a long, weary list of moans. These demonstrate just how much my uncomplaining patients have been through'
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Emma Dent on teenage kicks
'Our sex education was adequate although we did not get onto the juicy stuff until, frankly, it was too late for some. I thank the pages of teen mag Just Seventeenfor my best information.'
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Your Humble Servant: Project Stepford
‘You are either in a lot of trouble or are just the sort of twisted mind we need’
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Comment: Hopes for surplus pinned on turnaround in forecasting
It would be a bold stroke to pull off - delivering even a small surplus at the end of this financial year given the situation that NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers inherited in March.
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Kieran Walshe on professional regulation
'It will be much easier for NHS organisations to deal effectively and constructively with clinical performance problems'
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David Woodhead on public health
'We were facing our just desert for all the desserts we had just crammed in out faces'
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Emma Dent on summer
I can only bring myself to write about the heat now because it has cooled right down. This time last week I was out and about for most of the day.
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Comment: PCT recruitment cannot afford to pay tribute to the old regime
'To what extent is the success of current primary care trust chief executives in winning the top jobs in the new organisations a verdict on the success of the whole sector?'
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Comment: managing demand without the command
'It is not disagreeing but dissembling that really annoys doctors.'
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Your Humble Servant: public health and wine receptions
‘A fight has broken out between a couple of balding, geeky, thin male strategy directors who are trying to stab each other with Montblanc pens’
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Comment: muddle on primary care pilot delays
'There seems to be a distinct waning of enthusiasm on both sides, with private providers complaining about inflexibility and complexity and primary care trusts feeling financial pressures.'
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'Yes, I am a service user as well as a chief executive. I am in recovery. I have experienced depression, and view this as a strength.'