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Hugh Byrne

Posts by Hugh Byrne

Hugh Byrne is an NHS hospital consultant in London.

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Hugh Byrne: Winter pressure on hospital beds is inevitable – the NHS must adapt to manage it

Elective surgical centres would be an efficient way to lighten the load on acute hospitals. The health service must be less monolithic in order to cope better.

Comment | By Hugh Byrne | 9 January 2018 at 12:00 pm | 104 comments

Hugh Byrne: The NHS must do more to respect patients’ individual autonomy

Charlie Gard’s case highlights how the culture of the Health Service can make it deeply resistant to the legitimate wishes of patients.

Comment | By Hugh Byrne | 17 July 2017 at 11:00 am | 21 comments

Hugh Byrne and Lucy Mowatt: The case against a tax on sugar

The Conservative priority must instead be to ensure health policy is guided by experts in the field of nutrition, not enthusiastic amateurs spouting sound bites instead of science.

Comment | By Hugh Byrne | 30 October 2015 at 11:00 am | 26 comments

Hugh Byrne: How junior doctors are making a mess of their case for more pay

There is a sense of entitlement that they should be carried along without any competition, meaningful performance reviews or a healthy fear of unemployment.

Comment, Highlights | By Hugh Byrne | 29 September 2015 at 6:30 am | 28 comments

Hugh Byrne: I’m in work, Jeremy – but I remember that the public are paying me

I’m ashamed of the way some of my fellow doctors responded to a perfectly reasonable speech by Jeremy Hunt.

Comment, Highlights | By Hugh Byrne | 23 July 2015 at 6:30 am | 16 comments

Hugh Byrne: The self-selecting media doctors are wrong about the Government’s seven day services plan for the NHS

Ministers are not suggesting that GP surgeries open all hours over weekends to sort out routine issues, but that the workload of urgent cases is more evenly distributed.

Comment, Highlights | By Hugh Byrne | 10 June 2015 at 6:30 am | 8 comments

Hugh Byrne: The healthcare reactionaries of the NHS Action Party

They and other similar groups are a minor curiosity in this election, but they are a sign of a culture to the left of Labour in parts of our healthcare system.

Comment, Highlights | By Hugh Byrne | 15 April 2015 at 6:30 am | 8 comments

Hugh Byrne: It’s time to tear down the cult of Bevan in the NHS

It was the wartime Minister for Health, the Conservative Party’s Sir Henry Willink, who actually published the 1944 White Paper in response titled ‘A National Health Service’.

Comment, Highlights | By Hugh Byrne | 29 March 2015 at 12:00 pm | 34 comments

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