The market leader

Article Abstract:

Sainsbury executive, Roy Griffith, was appointed by Margaret Thatcher to reorganise the National Health Service, and his proposals to cut costs, ensure better management structures and make staff more accountable have been implemented throughout the service. Griffith's style was to impose ideas rather than try to reach a consensus. Nurses were excluded from decision-making, their views were disregarded and the unions did not react quickly enough and were left powerless. Nurses continue to have little power to do anything about the state the profession is now in.

Social policy, Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Nursing, Griffith, Roy

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Seeking asylum

Article Abstract:

The care and treatment of inmates in asylums in the mid-19th century was based on cleanliness, exercise and work. Asylum nurses had no training, career structure or status. Pay was poor, they had to obey strict rules and were often punished. Training and registration was initiated in 1885 and was seen as vital to improving the status of asylum workers. Registration began in 1919, however the role and status of the mental health nurse did not change significantly. The shadow of this past still lingers over mental health nursing today.

History, Portrayals, Asylums, Psychiatric nursing

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Will independent sector involvement destroy the NHS?

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the impact of private sector involvement in the National Health Service of the United Kingdom are discussed. Particular attention is given to benefits and detriments of such involvements, including improving patient care standards and commercialisation respectively.

Medical care, Influence, Private sector

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