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Several countries have set up fat taxes to fight obesity, but there are some drawbacks Obesity – and its control – is high on the public health agenda. Last month, the Lancet published a series of papers on the science and social science of obesity and its prevention. Conservative estimates of obesity...
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When the NHS can be helped by the private sector, we should be pleased not furious, argues the Patient from hell Andrew Lansley's health bill may be a dog's breakfast, but I find the doctors' reaction to it completely over the top. It makes me doubt their sanity. In the letter written to...
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Greater concentration of specialist work in fewer sites produces better results If the echo of a bed-pan really does reverberate in Whitehall then the MP who prevents a hospital closure on his or her patch is guaranteed to make a big impact. It's the reason why there have been a number of peculiar...
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GPs should be spot-checked rather than put through a bureaucratic and feeble revalidation process, says the Patient from hell Did you see Can you trust your doctor? on Channel 4's Dispatches on 3 October ? It was quite scary: a series of horror stories about GP incompetence. These stories puncture...
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Contrary to expectations, equity in the English health service has not so far been damaged by market reforms Left leaning critics of NHS reforms have long worried that market forces may undermine equity, or fairness of access, in health care. A classic statement of this view was Julian Tudor Hart's...
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Moving health and social care to social enterprises means giving power and influence to front line staff This government believes delivering the health and care that people really need requires a shift of power and influence to those who can make the greatest difference – those people working on the...
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Government data demonstrates that the next four years will be the most challenging in the health service's history It is a year since the government published the outcome of the spending review and so fixed public spending allocations for the four years from 2011-12 to 2014-15. The spending review...
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Councils are enthusiastic about the job of managing the nation's public health, but fears of the issue being cast overboard persist Councils' enthusiasm for the job of managing the nation's public health, which returns to the remit of local government from April next year, is unquestionable...
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Salford Royal has worked with local artist – and patient – Harold Riley to install hundreds of artworks in its new Hope Building From the earliest stages of planning, stakeholder groups had identified artwork as a key element in creating the 'feel' of the new Hope Building, part of Salford Royal...
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GPs' reluctance to register marginalised people is wrong – and costs more in the long run "I have found it difficult to register with a doctor," she said calmly as she laid her hands on her distended abdomen. It was alarming to see a woman who had not yet seen a doctor approximately seven...
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Local optometrists are is working successfully with commissioners to reduce pressure on secondary care ophthalmology Rising demand for eye care services in England and Wales is creating a capacity problem for commissioners in many areas. Traditional eye care pathways result in many patients being referred...
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A new report claims that 520 emergency patients die in London every year due to understaffed out-of-hours care, writes the Patient from hell Apparently, in London hospitals 520 more emergency patients die each year who are admitted out-of-hours or at weekends. This is because of staff shortages at weekends...
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Critics of the government's health service plans should say how they would solve its financial problems, writes the Patient from hell Once, the British were credited with an ability unique among all nations of the world to see the other fellow's point of view and make the necessary compromises...
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How staff experienced Mid Staffordshire's recent project to involve frontline staff in redesigning and improving services for patients "'Taking patient care to the next level' has enabled staff from a variety of disciplines to get together and highlight key issues that they, together...
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The health service should treat Mid Staffordshire as a pretty average trust which hit a bad patch without seeing any warning signs Stephen Moss, the chairman of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust , worries that the NHS has not learned from what happened at Stafford Hospital. In June, he asked a session...