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News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.
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Early learning is key weapon in obesity war
Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall
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'As junior doctors struggle to find work The Sunday Times claimed that the Department of Health survey on GP workload would show that family doctors were earning more and working less'
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Public health Barometer, February 2007
The single biggest rise in confidence in the latest Barometer survey of public health directors was for the access target on sexual health services, the overall number up from 6.08 out of 10 to 7.09. At the other end of the scale, optimism on the 2010 childhood obesity target has ...
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Michael White on the Welsh NHS
Have we discussed the Welsh NHS lately? I thought not. But prescription charges are to be abolished in the principality on April 1, a month ahead of the Welsh Assembly elections and the day before Wales's new pub smoking ban starts.
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Sophia Christie on lessons from Sweden
One of the most distinctive characteristics of NHS trusts' work with US company Kaiser Permanente is also one of the least commented upon. Kaiser Health Plan is an insurance company in an exclusive partnership with the Permanente Medical Group, run as a profit share company for the participating partner doctors.
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Come back, bowler brigade, all is forgiven
The Department of Health is the department the government wants - lean, responsive and focused. But is that what the health service needs? Scott Greer says the DoH should start answering back to government
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Michael White on politics
Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.
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Healthcare inspection comes under scrutiny of its own
'Numbers do not impart wisdom in themselves, you have to learn how to select and use them'
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NHS managers have a key role in local politics
'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'
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Michael White on politics
'It would have taken a chainsaw to separate Ms Hewitt from the job, despite everything'
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Simon Stevens on happiness and health
'Six factors apparently explain 80 per cent of the variation in happiness... Not all of these can be tackled by a typical primary care trust.'
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Silence can mean fear, not support
'One can understand why anxiety, uncertainty and fear rule'
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Mike White on the Lords
'You cannot expect a nurse to handle 50 staff and a £1.5m budget without training'
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Noel Plumridge on finance
'I couldn't resist it: 'Have you thought of taking up golf?' I quipped'
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Christopher Newdick on treatment abroad and the law
Should PCTs be alarmed by the European Court of Justice's ruling on covering the cost of treatment abroad? Christopher Newdick explains
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Data briefing: Scottish tariffs
Following publication last year of Professor David Kerr?s Building a Health Service Fit for the Future, a Wanless-style review of Scottish health services, the NHS in Scotland is now implementing Delivering for Health reforms, which includes a new system of paying hospitals.
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Hilary Thomas on living with cancer
Becoming a patient has been a salutary, levelling experience
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London bombs: team NHS deserves better on comms
'Adversity fuels learning faster than most other things'
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Flinging a 'small morsel of red meat' to the pack would only make them salivate even harder for more