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"Free" health care flaws. (Correction, Please!).(United Kingdom National Health Service)(Brief Article)
Item: Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, unveiled a crash 40 billion pound program of "investment" in the National Health Service, reported The Guardian for April 18th. "Taking a massive political gamble that voters will see real benefits in the quality of the NHS before the next election, Mr. Brown said his aim was to 'make our NHS the best insurance policy in the world,' [adding that] "it was a 'chance in a generation' to bring the NHS up to world standards."
CORRECTION: Getting something for nothing may be popular in principle, but those who have experienced British socialized medicine know otherwise. One recent poll revealed that a meager 7 percent think extra taxes will result in a change for the better in the NHS.
Skepticism is in order. The death toll in British public hospitals caused by medical errors, some 1,200, was five times higher in 2000 than in ...
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- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) March 1, 2002 700+ words
...sustained investment in the NHS, then they want to know...paying is going to the health service. The pressure to make...Government. Driven by the NHS Plan, the Government...reform programme for the health service, 'St Bop' as it is...staff at the heart of the NHS, by devolving ...
- Public opinion, the NHS, and the media: changing patterns and perspectives....
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Judge, Ken Solomon, Michael Miller, David Philo, Greg April 4, 1992 700+ words
...general question about the NHS is usually followed by...particular aspects of the health service. Respondents are asked...views concerning the NHS. The first question...opinion of the National Health Service in your area?" Table...negative opinions of the NHS in their area. In ...
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- Newspaper article from: The BBI Newsletter July 1, 2003 700+ words
...UK's National Health Service (NHS) has launched a...patients on the overall NHS waiting list needs...orthopedic surgery. The health service said that orthopedics...said, "but the health service is on course to deliver the NHS Plan, so that by...
- Competition in NHS quasi-markets. (United Kingdom National Health Service)
- Magazine article from: Oxford Review of Economic Policy Chalkley, Martin Malcomson, James M. December 22, 1996 700+ words
...INTRODUCTION The National Health Service and Community Care...reformed the National Health Service (NHS) by requiring, among...research on the way health service markets work. An indication...interesting parallels to the NHS. For example, the...
- Re-examining the fundamental principles of the NHS. (National Health...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Howell, J.B.L. February 1, 1992 700+ words
...Providing an adequate health service Has the range...of care in the NHS fallen below...provided by the NHS is unjustified...providing an adequate health service is not limited...afford a national health service? The ability of the NHS to meet its goals...
- NHS Communications: Changing perceptions.(National Health Service)
- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) July 2, 2004 700+ words
...view the National Health Service as an over-stretched...Indeed, the NHS still faces a perception...opinions of the health service are out of kilter...of their local health service, and people still...to talk down the NHS and its staff...
- NHS Direct.(UK National Health Service)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Sadler, Mike Vaughan, Mike Green, Ben Anton, Christopher January 20, 2001 700+ words
...that "the primary end point of NHS Direct should be whether it meets...in inappropriate demands on the health service is a realistic and desirable aim...to be the only strategy in the health service. NHS Direct offers the opportunity...
- Are the media losing faith in the NHS?(UK National Health Service)
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Vass, Alex October 20, 2001 700+ words
...how to make the health service more efficient...clear: that the NHS is sacred. Even...headline "Why the NHS is bad for us...lost faith in the health service and that we needed...editor of the Health Service Journal, felt that...losing faith in the NHS" but he was ...
- The BMA and the NHS.(British Medical Association)(National Health Service 50th...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Webster, Charles July 4, 1998 700+ words
...Inauguration of the NHS None of the above examples...the shape of the future health service lasted longer than the...few weeks before the NHS began in July 1948...entirely new plan tot the health service and proceeded with the...parties but, after the NHS Act was in place, ...
- "Macho" management in the NHS: may wreck everything. (United Kingdom's National...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Simpson, Jenny Savage, Richard June 20, 1992 700+ words
...modern management and the health service and who have the respect...different tribes within the NHS. These are the people...political struggles over the NHS might imagine that change is slowing down in the health service--in fact it is just...14 months of the new NHS have ...
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