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Elizabeth Loder on tackling unnecessary treatment in the US: This time “it feels different”

May 15, 2012

US healthcare costs are unsustainable and a large amount of money is being wasted on unnecessary treatment.  There was general agreement about these statements among the audience, speakers and panelists […]

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Muir Gray: How doctors working in systems could rescue healthcare

January 24, 2012

“We have nothing as bad as America’s worst, and nothing as good as America’s best,” wise words said to me by someone many years ago, and this principle has stood […]

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Martin McShane: Integrated reflections concluded

November 28, 2011

Here is my third and final blog on the USA trip: After Seattle’s integrated care organisations, we visited CalPERS. They fund $6.7bn worth of healthcare for 1.3 million people (roughly twice […]

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Martin McShane: Integrated reflections continued

November 24, 2011

Following our visit to Kaiser Permanente, we travelled north to Seattle and visited the Virginia Mason hospital and Group Health. Linked but distinct, the relationship between the two provided a […]

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David Kerr: Gordon Gekko and the NHS

March 11, 2011

Here in United States, the latest must have app contains software that blocks any mention of the actor, Charlie Sheen. Until recently, Sheen was the highest paid television star in […]

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David Kerr: Social medicine

February 17, 2011

“The UK coalition government’s proposals for health reform have generated much heat without a great deal of light. One predictable response has been the “concern” that the private sector is […]

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Vidhya Alakeson on US healthcare reform

January 27, 2011

The theatre of politics has been on full display in Washington of late. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed […]

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Richard Smith asks: Is it unpatriotic to criticise the NHS?

August 17, 2009

I’m worried that in the highly charged atmosphere created by the extraordinary US debate on health care my published anxieties about the NHS might brand me as unpatriotic. Perhaps Fox […]

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Vidhya Alakeson on the US election

September 5, 2008

After the Democratic Convention last week, when healthcare featured in almost every major speech, I had been waiting all week to see whether the Republicans would talk about it at […]

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