Earlier today on this site, Neil Shastri-Hurst wrote about mental health. Here’s the former Defence Secretary on the long waits in some places for treatment.
The target for time from referral to the first consultation is 28 days. But there is a range of more than 90 per cent in achieving this.
The BMA is a trade union that uses public pressure to bargain for higher wages. I don’t begrudge you that. But NHS reforms have to be fair to patients, too.
Plus: The Enemy Within rings me during my LBC programme. Back Hunt – defy the BMA. And: I want to buy Margaret Thatcher’s clothes.
At hospitals like the Salford Royal and Northumbria, where they have already introduced seven-day services, it’s staff who are the greatest advocates for change.
The Health Secretary accuses the BMA of making misleading claims.
The Government has a sound case against such a regressive measure, but its accommodation of the public health lobby has left it without space to make it properly.
The chaos theatre of Corbyn’s leadership may be making all the headlines now, but this autumn the Government will face fights over cuts.
It can improve our health and care service to patients and users, and empower our elderly patients to take more control of their own lives and condition.
The current format of the service is no longer meeting the demands on it – a truth that neither the Government nor its critics are facing up to.
My experience as a nurse, working with many terminally ill people, showed me just how easy it is for a frail, terminally ill patient to feel a burden or an inconvenience.
This is an issue of freedom of choice. The logo of my party was for a long time the torch of freedom.
Lansley was accused of having no mandate for his NHS bill. But however ambitious it may have been, it didn’t upend the entire medical profession – as this one does.
Labour’s been in charge here since 1999. That’s 16 years of the same old faces and the same tired mantra.
We understand the importance of employment in the process of recovering confidence, self-worth and a sense of belonging.