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A hospital trust that became notorious for poor care is using its employees’ ideas to turn itself around
Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust has become notorious for failing to take care of its patients. This piece looks at some of the ways it has started to make improvements, although it has a long way to go.
Continue reading “How staff helped Mid Staffordshire make a clean start”
Councils in north west England are drafting a bylaw for minimum drink prices, but Scotland may get there first
Scotland is increasingly developing distinctive policies on health, such as minimum unit pricing for alcohol, to deal with its particular health problems. You can read other posts and articles by me on Scotland here.
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Security Service was responsible for 62% of wrong applications for communications data in 2010
More on privacy issues here. Continue reading “MI5 makes 1,061 bugging errors”
Hertfordshire police has defended its plans to circle a town in the county with automatic numberplate recognition cameras
More on policing here. Continue reading “Privacy groups take Royston’s ANPR plans to ICO”
University Hospitals Birmingham’s chief executive Julie Moore has needed all her operational management skills to transfer patients and staff
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which treats soldiers returning from overseas next to NHS patients, is a great example of how well a new hospital can work.
All articles and posts on hospitals
Continue reading “How Birmingham moved into its new NHS hospital”