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What can a play about the plight of intellectuals in the former Czechoslavakia tell us about today’s NHS? Quite alot, argues Chris Hart

01 November 2006

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

I recently saw Tom Stoppard’s new play, Rock ‘N’ Roll. It follows the story of Jan, a young Czech intellectual and Max, Jan’s mentor, an English professor and...

Californian dream becomes reality

01 February 2007

Mental Health Practice

International

Though state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t there to lend his political muscle to the proceedings, California welcomed the 400-odd delegates to the 20th...

Money talks

01 December 2008

Mental Health Practice

Interact

There is a ‘rich’ irony that as the NHS heads towards a market-driven system, the financial markets are in freefall. Banks are being nationalised here and in the...

The struggle goes on

01 March 2010

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

THE DEGREE to which nurses should be educated has been debated since the 19th century. Against significant opposition, Florence Nightingale argued that women from...

Give us some truth

01 March 2011

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

DOES TRUTH matter in public life? I do not refer to the truth about people’s private lives, but to that about political decisions that can affect the lives of...

Teams need leaders

01 July 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

PITY POOR Gordon Brown. The hero of the G20 Summit, he is so weak in his own party that someone of the stature of Hazel Blears could seriously threaten his position...

Hart to heart

01 May 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

I WATCHED a recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme with a terrible sense of déjà vu as the illusion of a ‘modern’, improved model of health care unravelled like a...

Atlantic crossing

01 October 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

THE ROW about health care raging in the United States saw politicians and media commentators denouncing the NHS as anything from a sinister Stalinist Gulag to a...

A casualty of policy

01 May 2010

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

THE SCANDAL of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is the result of Labour’s continuation of Tory health policies. Estimates are that between 400 and 1,200...

Plus ça change

01 October 2008

Mental Health Practice

Interact

As I thought about writing my first column for Mental Health Practice it prompted me to read the issue published exactly ten years ago. I wasn’t seeking a ‘lost...