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Give us your ideas to save NHS money

February 17, 2010

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If we want to keep an NHS ‘free at the point of delivery’, WE have to fight for this.
It is no use expecting ‘them’ to sort out the NHS’s problems.  It belongs to us – and as ‘our’ service it is up to us to suggest where the cuts come.  Whatever you believe, [...]

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Number of Managers in NHS has doubled in decade

February 13, 2010

British Medical Association  Wikipedia

In the last decade doctors and nurses have increased their numbers by 35% – so one wonders how the old-fashioned half an hour appointment has now  condensed down to ten minutes – did someone shrink the timetable?
Or, is it as the BMA (British Medical Association) says, down to “a fixation” with extra [...]

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“Nothing Personal” gives you ammunition to fight for better cancer care

January 23, 2010

NOTHING PERSONAL
is a ‘how I suffered’ type of book.  So why am I singing its praises?
Author Mitzi Blennerhassett recounts her problems as a cancer patient in a matter-of-fact way.  We can all relate to her experiences, and think, “she had this as well – so why am I being told no-one else does?” She then [...]

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When a focus group thought ‘Royal Marsden’ was the name of a potato

December 28, 2009

Gordon Brown making plans for the NHS

MASSIVE CUTS FORECAST IN NHS
2010 is Election year – and everyone is forecasting massive cuts in NHS Funds.
But – is this such a bad thing?  Or will cuts force the NHS administration to think seriously about where the cuts will fall – and perhaps even devise plans to [...]

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Latest money-wasting idea from NHS

December 18, 2009

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New Number to Call
Latest gimmick from Dept. Health is to provide us with a new telephone number for medical questions.
111 – or ONE ONE ONE.
This isn’t for emergencies – that is still 999.
111 is for people to call who want advice about a medical problem, and to take pressure off 999 – because [...]

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How the NHS looks for expertise when appointing committee members

December 4, 2009

Ambulance Service  Wikipedia

I thought I could bring my experiences with obtaining excellent cancer treatment in France and Germany, to bear on improving cancer services in Britain.
So applied to the Appointments Commission.
Silly me.
They wanted “expertise in private, public or voluntary services – no mention of ‘being fit for purpose’, or having any understand of what patients [...]

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Finding a local cancer centre that suits you

December 1, 2009

Maggie’s Centre, Dundee  Wikipedia

WHAT ARE THEY?
At first I thought they weren’t for me – I didn’t want to talk to a lot of other patients moaning about their aches and pains.
Then I was curious, and went to a Look Good, Feel Better session, and found these groups aren’t moaners at all – they run [...]

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Two more hospital trusts are found wanting – when will it end?

November 29, 2009

This week it was Basildon and Thurrock, and Colchester hospitals that produced shocking statistics;  following
on from Mid-Staffordshire, Birmingham, Kent and others.  All found wanting.  All accused of causing needless
deaths.  All run by Trust staff that mouth platitudes, but don’t resign until forced so to do.  Then the CEOs
immediately talk of unfair dismissal.

Perhaps it would concentrate [...]

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Does you doctor listen to you, or spend more time looking at a screen?

October 31, 2009

Typical Surgery – full of computers  Wikipedia

DOES YOUR DOCTOR LOOK YOU IN THE EYE?
In a recent survey, Pulse Magazine (the doctors’ in-house mag.) found nearly half of GPs claim to be too busy to make eye-contact with their patients during consultations.
97 per cent complained that consultations had become more complicated and intense over the last [...]

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When Politicians use the NHS as a political pawn

October 28, 2009

David Cameron has praised the NHS for the way it looked after his disabled child – but many other parents tell a different story  Wikipedia

31.8.09
USING THE NHS AS A POLITICAL PAWN.
When politicians use the NHS as a political tool, am I the only one who is disgusted?
Recently Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been outdoing [...]

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