All Conservative policy articles – Page 46
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Conservatives 'moving towards two-tier system'
Published: 18/04/2002, Volume II2, No. 5801 Page 7
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Tories' fresh thinking ends 50 years of consensus
But admission of past failures would do much to boost party's credibility
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Stories in the making
JOINT WORKING: Joint working means different things to different people but the idea is hemmed in by misconceptions, argue Sally Bigwood and John Lucy.They set out to explode some myths
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Conservatives and Lib Dems fail in attempt to thwart abolition of CHCs
The government's plan to abolish community health councils came under renewed fire from MPs this week.
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Bedtime stories: 'I hadn't realised how important communications are for patients'
Frank Arnold, managing director of Unicorn Hospital Communications, knows better than most the frustration of not being able to phone his relatives from a hospital bed.
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Conservatives attack latest DoH waiting-list claims
The number of patients waiting for an NHS operation fell by 3,600 during November, according to the Department of Health. The total number of patients waiting in England stood at 156,960 - 137,000 fewer than March 1997.
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Conservatives promise cheaper private care
The Conservative Party conference this week heard leaders' plans for a massive expansion and 'shake-up' of private healthcare to outstrip total Labour health spending.
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Conservatives give 'hands off 'health pledge
The Conservative Party has pledged to 'take politicians out of the day-to-day management of the NHS'.
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Scots Conservatives won't push private care
The Scottish Conservative Party is likely to take a softer line on expanding the private healthcare sector than its English counterpart.
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Conservatives' favourite wants to 'reinvent internal market' in health service
The US academic credited with thinking up the ideas behind the Conservative reforms has suggested 'one good way forward' for the NHS would be to 'reinvent the internal market'.
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Inside stories
Parc prison, a privately run local prison with 800 inmates, has contracted out its healthcare to Bridgend and District trust since late 1997.
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Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.
She had a dig at public health minister Tessa Jowell's alleged vanity - 'now I could understand it if she had my good looks'.
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Let's have a very long and wordy headline here AKA guardian down page stories
Government efforts to improve care in the community will fail unless shortages of supported and secure accommodation are remedied, according a report.