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NHS
Gill Morgan: NHS Providers’ programme for the next parliament
It’s rare for the NHS to be out of the headlines. From immediate winter pressures to the longer term challenges of promoting wellness and preventing illness, there is a continuous […]
Samir Dawlatly: Is NHS privatisation inevitable?
“So what difference would it make if the NHS was privatised?” asked a medical student this week. We had just been discussing my pet conspiracy theory: that the bad press […]
Jonathon Tomlinson: What are we afraid of?
Review of Atul Gawande: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Profile Books Margaret McCartney: Living with Dying. Pinter and Martin Surgeon, professor, and best selling writer Atul […]
David Zigmond: Payments for diagnosing dementia—what are the hidden costs?
Payment by results in matters of complex welfare can easily subtract from, rather than add to, our greater good. The recent and mooted NHS initiative for payment by results—to pay […]
Paul Laboi: Making dialysis care more person centred
It’s increasingly recognised that empowering people to take a greater role in managing their healthcare is beneficial for both patients and healthcare professionals, especially for those living with long term […]
Billy Boland: Final thoughts on the NHS Leadership Academy
Having made my final submission for the NHS Leadership Academy, and after being told I’ve passed the course by my learning set, the programme should be in the bag. That […]
Samir Dawlatly: Open letter to the Department of Health and NHS England
Dear Department of Health and NHS England It seems clear that you, the medical fraternity, as well as the mass media agree that there is a recruitment and retention crisis in […]
Tamasin Cave: NHS England needs to come clean on its spending
Transparency is a much used word in the new NHS. It is the key to safer care, says Jeremy Hunt, and the most important innovation in health, according to NHS […]
Amlan Basu: Behind the scenes of Broadmoor
The landmark documentary Broadmoor aired on ITV on Wednesday 5 and 12 November. For the first time, the NHS allowed a camera crew into a high secure psychiatric hospital to […]