Forum

This is your forum - your chance to let everyone hear of your experiences and expertise. Suggestions and ideas will be collated and will form the basis of 2020health.org policy documents that will be published on the web and debated with the shadow health team.

We would like to hear from you about your experience in health and social care. You can either relay your experience in a particular speciality or make a suggestion for change in your area of work.

New Prescription for Prescribing?

Paul Charlson takes an in-depth view at whether it's time to overhaul the prescribing system. more

As a Frequent User of the NHS...

As a frequent user of the NHS due to disability, I believe significant problems consistently reoccur in two (often interlinked) areas. more

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The march in london of 12000

23/03/07
the march in london of 12000 doctors was testament to the outrage of the medical profession against the changes in medical training that this government is imposing... more

Real Independence for the NHS

28/02/07
In the emerging debate about independence of the NHS, commentators have pulled their punches. Let me not pull mine... more

Waiting Time Tricks - Patsy's Palour Games?

20/02/07
We are compiling a list of the reality of waiting times and are asking you to contact us with your stories of how health trusts have found inventive ways of meeting waiting time targets... more

Steps towards the Independence of the NHS – A consultant’s view.

14/02/07
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The Future for Nurses

24/01/07
Read a comment from a nurse... more

Model of Healthcare Delivery

15/01/07
How can the model of service delivery be improved? more

NHS Future

08/01/07
My vision for the NHS The whole system needs review. The following principles should be adopted or strengthened. more

Funding

08/01/07
Our local hospital - the Great Western Hospital, Swindon has now been open nearly 3 years. more

NHS Food

08/01/07
The cost of providing food must be enormous. Here then is an opportunity for saving and at the same time improving quality. more

Patient Centered Care

08/01/07
I have spent the last ten years working across England with systems attempting to work in Partnership with other particularly Social Services to improve services for older people and other vulnerable adults. more

Practice Based Commissioning

08/01/07
Unless we get Practice Based Commissioing (or something similar), underpinning, and acting as a counterbalance to, Payment by Results (National Tariff) the NHS is heading for a bigger overspend than ever before. more

NHS Management

08/01/07
New PCT's!' (New Look!) yet again another opportunity for the government to change for the sake of changing! more