Holding the NHS line

Holding the line against diagnostic inflation in psychiatry.

pet diagnoses and from consumer advocacy groups who worry a great deal about false negatives but tend toward indifference about false positives. The only pushback against all of these pressures causing diagnostic inflation comes from those practice guidelines that suggest a cautious, stepped care approach to treatment [5, 6] . However, these efforts have not been sufficient to hold the diagnost...

Morality and Markets in the NHS

Since its establishment in 1948, the history of the National Health Service (NHS) has been characterized by organisational turbulence and system reform. At the same time, progress in science, medicine and technology throughout the western world have revolutionized the delivery of healthcare. The NHS has become a much loved, if much critiqued, national treasure. It is against this backdrop that ...

Labour pledges to raise NHS wages in line with inflation.

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, has committed to make no real terms cuts in NHS pay under a future Labour government—a pledge that the health secretary for England, JeremyHunt, and the Liberal Democrat health minister Norman Lamb refused to match. The politicians were put on the spot by the BMA’s chair of council, Mark Porter, at a debate on health and social care in London this...

Holding the Internet Accountable

Today’s IP network layer provides little to no protection against misconfiguration or malice. Despite some progress in improving the robustness and security of the IP layer, misconfigurations and attacks still occur frequently. We show how a network layer that provides accountability, i.e., the ability to associate each action with the responsible entity, provides a firm foundation for defenses...

What do NHS staff think about the NHS?