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From	Subject	Teaser
Julia Manning	What can the NHS learn from the VHA?	Julia Manning, 2020health.org chief executive, here discusses the lessons in long-term condition management...

Gordon Lorimer	Overseas patient payments	I read the article on overseas patients’ payments with great interest (‘Foreign debt written off in...

Nigel Padgham	Circle take charge at Hinchingbrooke	I am dismayed by the union attitude – it seems they think the previous failed regime was satisfactory or better than...

Mark Lainchbury	Writing off debts for foreign patients	“The variation evident in the amount of debt written off across different trusts suggests that reclaiming...

Allan Purslow	Charges for missed appointments	With regard to the possibility of fines for people who miss appointments (www.nationalhealthexecutive.com...

Dr Janine Stockdale	Breastfeeding and babies’ behaviour	There is a growing mountain of evidence about the many benefits of breastfeeding for mother...

T Sykes	Online access to medical records by patients	This is exactly the right approach in all respects and where any (catastrophic) attempt to...

Valerie John-Charles	Homelessness	I work with homeless persons at the Greenhouse in Hackney – a service developed in collaboration...

Dominic Carter	Sharing NHS patients’ data	The benefits in securely sharing patient information for the NHS, the life sciences industry...

Chris Bradley	NHS targets	60 new targets; not bad from the Government that was elected on a promise of no more...

Paul Fitzsimmons	Informatics	The concerns of the BMA over the Department of Health’s commissioning support...

Siobhain O’Donnell	Job cuts	We all understand the need for efficiency savings but surely the decision not to...

Siobhain O'Donnell	Care Quality Commission (CQC)	The CQC is damned if it does and damned if it does not (inspect!). However, it has...

John-Charles Valerie	Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Circle	I believe that a change in overall management of the hospital should be watched closely. Despite...

Tim Ellis	Reprieve for Brompton from High Court judge (NHE, November 8)	Much of the talk from the JCPCT has been how expertise does not reside in bricks and mortar...

Lorrie Farrall	'NHS equipment efficiency’, NHE, October 26	A friend of ours went private but saw the rheumatologist specialist in a clinic within the local NHS hospital...

Terry Leigh	Complaint handling in the NHS	I would like to provide some feedback on your recent report (‘GPs criticised for complaint handling’, October 18)..

Dr Henry Potts & Amy McKeown	How organisational structures stand in the way of e-health	Healthcare sees great potential in information and communication technology (ICT): e-health...

Dr David Cochrane	PFI	The NHS has over planned acute hospital capacity for over 30 years now. Most of the PFI...

Chris Bradley	Use of mobile devices in the NHS	The NHS can’t win, can it. Often accused of being old fashioned and techno-phobic they also...

Lynda Steele	CQC inspections	The fact that CQC do not accept complaints about service delivery as part of their review...

Mat Cooke	Recommendations on ‘plant-based diets’	In 1983 we made a U-turn in our dietary advice: From - Base your meals on fats...

John Cornell	Hospital closures for child heart surgery services	I really think the whole exercise has been a cosmetic one and hence a waste of public money...

Christine Waterland	Closure of Leeds paediatric heart surgery	Big is not beautiful – it is not efficient and it is not quality care. Are the remaining centres going...

Simon Dodds	NHS reforms	As a national service improvement award winner I speak from a position of reality rather...

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