I receive a call from a clinician working on a business case for developing cardiac services after the merger.
From a clinician's viewpoint, a sophisticated nanotechnology strategy would involve a direct intervention on the main cancer growth drivers.
Its reporters found many patients were left waiting for longer than the 10-minute target for a callback from a clinician, and some workers who were not clinicians were filmed giving medical advice to the undercover journalists.
The day it was brought home to me how important it is to get commissioning right involved receiving a letter from a clinician in a big teaching hospital about a patient who needed to have artificial legs fitted.
Ethical guidelines have focussed much more on research than on innovative care, because we assume that people need greater protection from an investigator, whose primary interest is knowledge, than from a clinician, whose primary interest is a patient's well-being.
As the movement itself puts it, "No matter how big or small the pledges were – from a clinician trying a child's medicine to understand how it tasted, to a receptionist promising to smile more, they gave us all a focus and reinforced our belief in the values of the NHS".
* Anecdotal evidence, often presented as "from a clinician's point of view" or "I see this in my practice".
Though this approach is not questionable from a formal perspective, it is, however, lacking from a clinician's point of view.
The spectrum of the surgeon-scientist ranges from a clinician who participates in the occasional research collaboration to the predominantly academic scientist with no involvement in clinical work.
