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Flight arrivals
The policy of 'dispersing' asylum seekers has strained local health services and highlighted the need for a healthcare strategy. Alison Moore reports
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The killing fields
Shocking levels of suicides among farmers are pointing to a gap in rural mental health services. Claire Laurent reports on possible remedies
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A brighter future?
The Institute of Health Research at Lancaster University is seeking to tackle problems in rural health in a two-year research project. It aims to address the health needs of the farming community and their exclusion from health services - a result of farming and health service timetables clashing.
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Ready for take-off, but concordat could nose-dive
Warm embrace of private healthcare by Labour is high-risk strategy
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Shame about the 'evidence'
Phillips report on BSE must give politicians of every hue pause for thought
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Avoid HR: botulism's better
Recently a writing commission for a firm of publishers has been keeping me busy moonlighting.
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WEB WATCH
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BBC grilling procures a Crisp but variant reply
If history isn't busy worrying about something more important, it may record that Alan Milburn was the first MP to congratulate Michael Martin, the new speaker, on his first day at work - having voted for him rather than for his Geordie neighbour, Dr David Clark, as Tony Blair probably ...
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Visits to homes
The organisation of the influenza programme for those unable to attend the clinic was similar in all practices, which contacted homes for elderly people in their area asking for the names of those due to have influenza vaccinations.
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Tales of the expected
The highs and lows of acute sector demand are far more predictable than is often thought, and can be planned for in summer and winter, write Tony Jewell and Hilary Spiers
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Health without a care
What constitutes health improvement? And with so many differing definitions, what chance has it got, ask Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam