The South West Strategic Health Authority document, “Progress report on plans forimproving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention ”, dated January … More
Category: NHS
Penalising Trusts for doing ‘too many’ emergency procedures
The NHS doesn’t produce widgets to be sold on the widget market. It has sick people coming through the doors. … More
Foundation Trust AGM
I attended a session of the Swindon & Marlborough NHS Foundation Trust AGM last night. The FT was launched at … More
Social Care – a public service or a commodity
On Monday I attended an event organised by LINKS, the Local Involvement Network which the government says have been launched … More
Keep Our NHS Public AGM
Saturday I attended the AGM of Keep Our NHS Public. One of the issues which was discussed was the possibility … More
Paying the private sector for NHS work it hasn’t done!
The Health Service Journal reports that the first independent treatment centre to complete a five year contract will have delivered … More
Acute beds in hospitals cut by 10% in three years
The latest issue of ‘Pulse’ magazine reports that NHS hospitals have cut acute beds by 10% in just three years … More
The premature announcement of the death of New Labour – tackling the recession or tinkering?
According to some of the right wing press, Gordon Brown has abandoned New Labour. Some trade union leaders agree, roaring … More
Sixty Years On
This is an article from the current issue of Solidarity, the trade union magazine. It examines the experience of nationalisation, and … More
Prescription charges – time to abolish them
The Citizens Advice Bureau, together with organisations such as the Macmillan cancer charity are calling for the scrapping of prescription … More
Martin Wicks 