Someone’s pulling the strings.
William Sun
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
Is the NHS ‘a wretched bowl of alphabetti spaghetti’, as David Cameron put it?
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The paradox of competition and integration other key challenges facing the re-appointed health secretary.
Is time running out for the NHS?
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The Conservative Party’s plans for an extra £8 billion annual health spending aren’t enough to halt a decline in quality care – never mind transform the NHS.
Approach with caution.
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When employees of dodgy companies or slipshod institutions put it all on the line to do the right thing, why do we hang them out to dry?
Nursing is under pressure.
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More nurses and higher education levels - not a change in values - are needed if nursing in Britain is to regain its world-leading status.
The Hunt is back on.
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The tories have promised £8bn a year for the #NHS but further cuts for local government will affect our health.
So it works like this…
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The devolution of NHS budget to Manchester is part of a broader trend that allows central government enough control but without much of the responsibility for delivery or failure.
Clue: not London.
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DevoManc will see £6 billion devolved to Greater Manchester for the NHS, and
Off the wards and into the boardrooms.
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Research suggests that physician-led hospitals do better, so let’s have more of them please.
Be prepared to wait when you get there.
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says A&Es are seeing and treating people faster than any other country that measures performance. Is he right?
Staff should be at the centre of NHS reforms.
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Management and financial performance measures are only a small part of the story of how we maintain the NHS.
The end is not Nye.
Along time ago...
If you want to know how well a health system works or not, ask the people who use it.
Good for you.
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Cooperation and communication are the cornerstones of patient care and safety but it’s all too easy to dismiss with a shrug.
The Greens pledge to spend more on health care than any other party.
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The Green Party offers an ambitious health manifesto, wanting to allocate £20 billion more to health care by 2020.
They’re all at it.
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The NHS black hole that is being sidestepped in the lead up to the election.
Faceless, but essential?
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The backroom staff of our biggest bureaucracies are an easy political target, but making good on promises for cuts is harder than it looks.
Nothing comes for free, Nigel.
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UKIP’s manifesto makes misleading claims on health tourism.
It’ll take more than a handshake to set the record straight.
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The Conservatives’ statements on health do not stand up to scrutiny, while their promises on mental health are vague
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
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Labour’s health manifesto does not rule out all NHS privatisation, despite vowing to protect service’s public status.
Labour is focusing on NHS waiting times.
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Labour claims that 590 fewer GP practices are now open in the evenings and on weekends. Are they right?