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The 'free-for-all' in freefall
Some deft re-wording was enough to save the day when Scotland's wrangling over personal care costs turned ugly. Lynn Eaton examines the new promises
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State of the union
Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.
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Labour's deal: an at-a-glance guide to the Scottish solution
Susan Deacon's original proposals:
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A sense of balance in the wake of Alder Hey report
Growing public distrust of medicine must be assuaged not encouraged
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For PEATs' sake, be realistic
Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation
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On short rations
As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports
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The tides they are a changing
Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Stephen Thornton Job: Chief executive, NHS Confederation Style: Was asked to leave school because - young leader in the making - he stood firm and refused to shave off his beard. But recently modernised his chin in clean-shaven Milburn-like style. A keen Baptist - and (a mole tells us) ...
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Yawning gap in perceptions as 'Giggles'Denham struts his stuff
It is funny noticing what really matters to people when the world is crashing down around them. I spent last Saturday at a Fabian Society conference, when Peter Mandelson's world lay in ruins and, rather more literally, so did a sizeable chunk of western India.
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Of mice and moose: a gut feeling over antibiotics out in the field
The bacteriology of moose, deer and bank voles is not a topic often mentioned in the pages of HSJ. When I tell you that a study from rural Finland reported in Nature (4 January) has shown that gut bacteria from the faeces of all three species are almost completely devoid ...
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Orthodox ginkgo study is the scrutiny herbal remedies need
If you're casting around for medical publishing's equivalent to the classic newspaper definition of a non-story ('Small earthquake in Peru, not many hurt') a recent paper in the BMJ (13 January) might seem to fit the bill.
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Cancer screening: technology is there, but the money is not
Screening programmes usually focus on our nether parts: the colon and the prostate. We hear little about the lung. Mindful of progress in screening technology, Malcolm Dalrymple-Hay and Nigel Drury of Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre have used the January edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to ponder ...