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Ike Anya: Can public health hold it all together in the new fragmented English NHS?

July 11, 2012

Following the recent Health and Social Care Act, which profoundly changes the structure of the NHS in England, one of the concerns that persists is the potential fragmentation of services […]

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Martin McShane: Walk the talk

June 26, 2012

Sometimes, it becomes apparent that what we have been talking about for so long is actually beginning to happen. Over the last few weeks we have been preparing for our […]

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Tom Nolan: Industrial action – winners and losers

June 25, 2012

The dust has settled following last week’s industrial action on pensions. Online forums, Twitter, and blogs have been alight with doctors giving their views—who do they feel have been the […]

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NHS pension strike—we are preparing to make a stand

June 15, 2012

We are planning to take industrial action at our GP surgery. We’re unanimous about the blatant inequity being thrust down our throats by Mr Lansley and the anger we feel […]

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Peter Bailey: Striking for a duck island

June 6, 2012

A few days ago I was asked by a local radio station to give an opinion about the strike action being planned by the medical profession over pensions.  I told […]

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Martin McShane: Letting go

June 1, 2012

One aspect of my job that I have enjoyed over the last few years has been engaging with the public. It has never been dull. When I first arrived in […]

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Edward Davies: Call for the spin doctor—this pension strike will need the mother of all PR campaigns

May 31, 2012

This strike is not going down well. Or to quote the Daily Telegraph, this “unseemly spectacle” is not going down well. And it’s not just the Telegraph. “There is no […]

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Rhys Davies: 21 June—is there a medical student in the house?

May 31, 2012

Yesterday, the BMA announced the results of its members’ ballot on industrial action. Tens of thousands of doctors across different branches of medicine responded, coming out strongly in favour of […]

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David Zigmond: Further NHS reforms – inevitable and unintended consequences

May 30, 2012

As the debate becomes more fraught, I want to add my voice to the fray. I have been a frontline medical practitioner for more than 40 years, and have seen […]

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Grant Hill-Cawthorne: House of Lords to be a mini House of Commons – would the Health and Social Care Bill have passed unamended?

May 30, 2012

Reform of the the House of Lords has been rumbling along for many years. Started by Tony Blair’s Labour Government, it was in the manifesto of all three main parties […]

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