Stub this hospital smoking ban out
A London NHS trust wants to ban smoking, even outdoors. Those interested in personal freedom should speak out.
Why caregivers have stopped caring
A former nurse says that the mistreatment of patients at Mid-Staffs is a symptom of a bigger crisis of compassion.
Time to scrap the Care Quality Commission
The only thing the social-care monitoring quango has done is nourish tick-box culture at the expense of patient care.
Time to be charitable towards ‘chuggers’
Better a street in which face-to-face fundraisers are free to annoy us than one in which they have been banned.
Building a wall between adults and children
The vital interactions between one generation and the next are being hampered by overblown fears of ‘stranger danger’.
Turning clinicians into state apparatchiks
A survey asking medical staff to rate the coolness of leaders like Hitler was naff – but so is the entire ‘leadership agenda’.
Undermining nursing care by degrees
The proposal that nurses in England should be university graduates will further reduce the level of basic nursing skills.
Health wars: six myths about the NHS debate
The support for a Twitter campaign backing the UK health service has little to do with the merits of state-run medicine.
Mystery shoppers: snooping on the NHS
The covert monitoring of public-sector staff will damage morale, and do little to provide decent public services.
Nursing a grudge against smokers
The increasing intolerance of smoking by health workers is manipulative and moralistic, argues a London-based nurse.
Nurses sans frontiers
How ethical is it to stop healthcare workers from the developing world from living and working in the UK?
The pregnancy police
Telling midwives to quiz pregnant women about domestic violence is an abuse of their position of trust.
Power to the patients?
The government's plans for patient-centred healthcare are going in the wrong direction.
Head cases
Craniosacral system therapy claims to help relieve illnesses and injuries by manipulating the 'life forces' produced by the human skull. Where's the proof?
Cot death: a guilt trip too far
Is every parent's nightmare also their fault?
The rise and rise of CAM
Why have complementary and alternative medicine become so popular - even among doctors?
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