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"Good"

Many years ago I worked with a doctor who always began answering every concern or problem put to him by his patients with the word "good". I once asked him why he did this and his reply was that it gave him time to think and it started things off on a positive note! Amidst our bleak mid winter, financial downturn and political uncertainty we may need to develop a similar mindset. In fact things are pretty good already.

Finance

NHS faces funding challenge
In recent months the debate about the NHS has intensified as all three political parties begin to outline their plans for the health service in greater detail. While each party continues to argue why they are best placed to run the country's health system, all three acknowledge the NHS is facing the most severe funding challenge in its history.

Legal

Procurement contracts and the healthcare sector
Establishing and maintaining a workable and successful procurement strategy is one thing, but putting an effective contract in place is quite another. Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) therefore have an obligation to establish a procurement strategy designed to promote the needs of patients while also managing the market

Special Features

Valuable lessons on Swine flu
Having spent months talking up the dangers of swine flu, parts of the media have now swung firmly the other way. Last month, The Daily Mail reported views that swine flu was 'a false pandemic driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a world-wide scare'

How the internet is transforming health care
The huge range of health care information available via the internet is an invaluable resource utilised every day by NHS staff, not simply for professional development through the availability of online journals, but increasingly for clinical decision making.

Mens and Womens Health

Where is the nearest toilet please?
So yes, LUTs sounds a bit like a soap for people bathing on a private jet. Sadly jets, private or otherwise are going out of fashion for the older male population. LUTs . (lower urinary tract symptoms) are by contrast on the big increase and for those who could once write their name in the snow on the way home from the pub, it is a big problem.