All News articles – Page 2054
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Getting the wind up
Why won't health professionals write concise, accessible English? Tim Albert laments a culture of verbosity and pretension
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Now for some ghetto-blasting
In his London School of Economics health lecture, delivered in March, health secretary Alan Milburn made some important remarks about public health and its place within the NHS.
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Your good health
The mood was unanimously upbeat at a UK Public Health Association forum as the organisation turned a year old. Tash Shifrin soaked up the good vibrations
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MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation.
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A helping handbook
Elias Fantousi swots up on valuable skills in the junior paramedics' firstaid handbook, which East Anglian Ambulance Service helped to produce. The seven-year-old was one of more than 20,000 children given the book, which teaches youngsters basic first aid as well as how their bodies work.
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Snap happy
A portrait titled Olivia by photographer Dieter Cole forming part of an exhibition showing psychiatric service users in the community. Living Our Lives at Brixton Art Gallery in south London is complemented by pictures taken by the subjects. Mr Cole, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 24, ...
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Life for patient who took hostage
A patient who effectively shut down a hospital in Wales for two days by holding a doctor at gunpoint has been given a life sentence.
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Internal market was only way 'to stop Thatcher privatising NHS'
The internal market in healthcare was dreamt up in a radical bid to stop Margaret Thatcher privatising the NHS, according to a book by a leading adviser to the current health secretary.
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Look who's talking
Whatever the future holds for Bart's, it seems destined for controversy. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Views sought on merger plan
South Staffordshire health authority is to launch a formal consultation on proposals to merge mental health and community trusts.
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monitor
Monitor is unable to say why health secretary Alan Milburn's Sunday appearance with Jonathan Dimbleby was followed by Carry on Doctor. But what a happy reminder the 1968 classic offers of the need to leave no group untouched by modernisation. We may confine our blaming and shaming to managers for ...
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Turn of the screw
Even when a merger is carefully planned and handled with sensitivity, staff will still experience long-term upset, writes Sandy Gillett
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Budget's £600m bonanza soured by claim of anti-bureauccrat spin
The government's decision to distribute £600m of Budget cash to the NHS with no strings attached has been warmly welcomed - but overshadowed by claims that the announcement was 'spun' into an 'anti-bureaucrat crusade'.
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About the size of it
With more than £1bn worth of PFI schemes in the bag, the DoH is turning its attention to medium and small projects. Seamus Ward reports