The cost of bleeping care
I recently read a fascinating and perplexing tale of the contingencies of work in healthcare, where ‘state of the art’ equipment sits alongside ‘stone age’ communication devices. The first time I saw a pager, in 1994, I thought it was...
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The Privatisation Paradox
Log into twitter and follow the #NHS hashtag and it doesn’t take long to conclude that the NHS is in the throes of a back-door privatisation programme, driven by an overzealous government with the ideological ‘bit’ between its teeth. This...
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“We need to talk about Jeremy”
As far back as the ‘National Listening Exercise’ in April 2011 it was fairly obvious that the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, was a dead man walking. This became reality last week when Lansley was replaced by Jeremy Hunt as Secretary...
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Becoming a consumer: who’s got the energy?