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?
Bosc d'Anjou
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.
Labour Party.
Labour claims that 590 fewer GP practices are now open in the evenings and on weekends. Are they right?
Get your tweed on.
Ted Eytan
Cycling undoubtedly has health benefits but it also comes with costs – which is the greater concern?
Better than A&E in many cases.
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Evidence from four pilot surgeries suggest an 8% drop in A&E admissions.
Have the wards filled up with more doctors and nurses?
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David Cameron says there are 9,000 more doctors and 7,000 more nurses than in 2010. He is right?
Take a moment.
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As we go into the 2015 election what kind of NHS will a new government inherit?
Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has a voice.
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Ideas are readily available, inexhaustible and free – the NHS could tap into more from the majority of the workforce.
Extra services rolling out.
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Measures to co-locate employment support for mental health service users in Jobcentres may be less valuable than placing them elsewhere.
Headlines affect politics, and that affects our health.
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The quest for favourable media coverage is damaging the NHS – and no politician seems immune.
Families of victims of Winterbourne abuse make a statement in 2012.
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Respect, value and support creates good carers but carers themselves can come with baggage that needs to be tackled.