Dr Roger Boyle
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《英国医生杂志》
Health tsars: spin or substance?: Eight health directors ("tsars") were appointed from 1999 to 2002. Katherine Burke asked them to summarise their achievements and other people to assess their work. A ninth "tsar", Dr Sue Roberts, was appointed in March 2003 to cover diabetes. The full text is accessible at www.bmj.com
Dr Roger Boyle
National director for heart disease
Appointed: March 2000
My achievements: Since my appointment, thanks to the hard work of thousands of dedicated NHS staff, major progress has been made. Cigarette advertising has been banned; over 300 000 smokers have been helped to quit. The national school fruit scheme is providing one million children with a free piece of fruit each schoolday. In primary care, the number of prescriptions for statins has risen by 30% each year.
In emergency care, we have seen steady improvement in ambulance response times and improvement in delivery of thrombolysis. The targets to reduce waiting times for heart surgery have long been eclipsed.
What others say
Professor Roger Hall, division of cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and editor of Heart: It is hard to say in a concrete way what would have happened had he not been there as cardiology has always been quite well organised. The real benefit is that there is an established route and someone at the table who is respected by both the profession and the government. Roger Boyle fits this bill. I think it is difficult for one person to represent the whole specialty—Roger is a cardiologist at a district general hospital, and, although well versed in theory about tertiary centres, he does not work in one.(Katherine Burke)
Dr Roger Boyle
National director for heart disease
Appointed: March 2000
My achievements: Since my appointment, thanks to the hard work of thousands of dedicated NHS staff, major progress has been made. Cigarette advertising has been banned; over 300 000 smokers have been helped to quit. The national school fruit scheme is providing one million children with a free piece of fruit each schoolday. In primary care, the number of prescriptions for statins has risen by 30% each year.
In emergency care, we have seen steady improvement in ambulance response times and improvement in delivery of thrombolysis. The targets to reduce waiting times for heart surgery have long been eclipsed.
What others say
Professor Roger Hall, division of cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and editor of Heart: It is hard to say in a concrete way what would have happened had he not been there as cardiology has always been quite well organised. The real benefit is that there is an established route and someone at the table who is respected by both the profession and the government. Roger Boyle fits this bill. I think it is difficult for one person to represent the whole specialty—Roger is a cardiologist at a district general hospital, and, although well versed in theory about tertiary centres, he does not work in one.(Katherine Burke)