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Milburn unveils his vision for a competitive future
A competitive market in healthcare provision, where patients are able to choose the hospital they wish to be treated in, and extra money and further freedoms to develop services flow to the best hospitals, was unveiled by health secretary Alan Milburn last week.
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Days like this
NewsGeneral election health policy. . . AIDS cash misused. . . DoH's inferior statistics. . . BUPA bids to stop the rot
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Home bounties
News: The South East may be affluent, but its bed-blocking problems are so severe that they are jeopardising service delivery across the region. Alison Moore meets the man charged with arguing a difficult case
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Blanket coverage
News: When senior social services managers and councillors met at the ADSS social services conference in Harrogate, bed-blocking was the topic of the day. Tash Shifrin was there
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Bed-blocking: views from the conference
News: The scale of the problem in 'hot spot' Birmingham, where about 350 people are waiting for discharge from hospital, has hit the headlines repeatedly.