Victoria Macdonald
Jeremy Hunt breaks up Mid Staffs Foundation Trust
Mid-Staffs NHS trust became a byword for neglectful, inhumane care. And with a trashed reputation, and an £11m deficit, turning it around is no longer an option.
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Victoria Macdonald
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FactCheck: A&E scare story based on dodgy figures
Figures released by Labour this week seem to suggest the very oldest are being rushed to hospital by ambulance in massively increased numbers – but the figures are flawed.
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Victoria Macdonald
Where are the radical solutions, as winter closes in on a struggling NHS?
NHS director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh is due to release a report on urgent care, but with winter fast approaching for struggling A&E departments, what the NHS perhaps needs is radical solutions.
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Victoria Macdonald
I do not hate the NHS
The vitriol and abuse I received following a story comparing US and UK mortality rates was astonishing. But if we don’t point out the bad and good of the NHS, will it ever achieve its potential?
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Victoria Macdonald
More calls for candour as NHS whistleblower hounded from UK
MPs call for more openness about NHS care quality and staffing levels, even as another NHS whistleblower is hounded from his job for raising concerns about the well-known hospital he worked at.
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Victoria Macdonald
Mid-Staffordshire scandal: day of reckoning beckons
The Francis inquiry report into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust will soon be published – but will those held responsible be held to account?
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Hospital beds: who’s lying where, FactCheck wonders?
NHS beds are free flowing and not over occupied, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, claims. Are they? FactCheck investigates.
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Victoria Macdonald
Hayley Fullerton death: where next for the hospital?
Birmingham Children’s Hospital, which treated baby Hayley Fullerton before she died at 13 months, are refusing to go on camera. This is what they had to say.
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FactCheck: What’s really going on with the NHS?
“Does this mean the NHS is falling to pieces under the coalition? Clearly not.”
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FactCheck: Still waiting for the spin to end on NHS targets
Ed Miliband makes an eye-catching claim on hospital waiting times in Parliament. FactCheck picks its way through the statistical minefield.
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The hidden cut in the hospitals budget
Alistair Darling gave the impression that the party of the NHS was to continue the bountiful spending settlements that have seen the health service budget triple since 1997, but capital spending is set for a 21.9% real-terms cut.
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Greeting the litany of Afghanistan's casualties
Nima Elbagir guest blogs from Kandahar hospital, Afghanistan. When the Obama administrations’ then nominee for the top job in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal faced the Senate Armed Services committee in early June his message was unequivocal – civilian casualties were the major operational issue. “This is a critical point. It may be the critical point.…