£33m lottery winners David and Carol Martin.
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Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.
Save our foxes: another day, another protest.
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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
Pressure point. Smarter GP surgeries can lighten the burden on the rest of the NHS.
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Britain’s local healthcare system of small time gatekeepers should become stronger networks of powerful providers.
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Fertility treatments might be designed to improve rather than save lives but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be publicly funded.
Overdoing it? Pills and thrills and bellyaches.
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When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
George Osborne.
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Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
More patients die at weekends.
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Jeremy Hunt’s solution to cutting deaths in hospitals at the weekend is to increase staff levels. But is it just a fudge?
Duty of care.
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In my final column, I look at how care in the NHS depends upon strong relationships between staff members.
Working on a Sunday.
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David Cameron promised a seven days a week GP service by 2020, but without considering the possible knock-on effects
Under scrutiny.
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We often get the facts wrong, but how we feel about austerity has serious consequences for the political class.
Taking off the label to charge more.
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Pharmaceutical companies aim to make a profit, but it took an industry insider to blow the whistle on some exorbitant drug costs the NHS was paying.
There’s still potential for health apps, but good ones.
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Having ‘approved’ poor quality, privacy-busting and clinically dubious apps, the NHS Health App Library closes - but it didn’t need to be this way.
Ask and you shall learn.
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Noisy bedtimes and MRSA – how patient experiences can address issues during hospital stays.
At the heart of the bill on innovative treatments lies a logical problem.
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A parliamentary bill aims to assuage fears that innovative treatment will lead to doctors being sued – but the problem doesn’t exist.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
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Research shows that patient care suffers when minority ethnic healthcare staff are unfairly treated.
On a knife edge. Winter strikes.
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When cold weather hits, heating costs can be a matter of life and death. So why are community groups the front line and not government?
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The health secretary should consider the history of his predecessors all the way back to Aneurin Bevan when it comes to keeping doctors happy.
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The NHS has always used incentives to shape doctors’ behaviour but the latest payments are a blunt instrument.
Risk to patients and staff.
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Bullying isn’t just about the victim and the aggressor – everyone in the workplace plays their part.
Ordinary superhero – but under pressure of burnout.
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NHS moves to help staff become healthier but GPs are under pressure.