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When a general election looms, the easy targets are almost unmissable
The past few days have once again revealed an unattractive side of politics which would offend voters more if the failing wasn't widely shared by the electorate. It is that willingness to whip up public feeling against easy targets while keeping heads safely down where There is even short-term risk.
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The generation claim
Worries are mounting that support for the NHS is dwindling among young people. But the evidence suggests the truth is more complicated, says Shirley McIver
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Eye off the ball?
Free training, free valuation and free materials failed to persuade GPs to show interest in a mental health selfcare package. Ann Richards and colleagues tried to explain the apathy
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Travellers' checks
If people will travel to Belgium to buy a new car, why can't they do the same for a hip operation? Is a European health market about to open up? And if so, how will the NHS fare in the stormy waters of competition? Martin Wakeley reports
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Outpatient waiting
Understanding how the outpatient system interacts with the rest of the NHS is important - but assessing waiting-list performance is far from straightforward, writes John Appleby
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CHCs' successor bodies 'set to cost five times as much to run'
The successor bodies to community health councils - to be abolished in the Health and Social Care Bill - will cost nearly five times as much to run, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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As 'dirty hospitals' clean up their act, ward sisters acquire powers over sub-standard companies
Follow-up visits to 50 'dirty hospital' trusts which failed inspection standards last autumn have revealed that 41 of them have moved from 'red' to 'amber' status.
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Over 100 labs 'h had mortuary problems'
The hospital at the centre of the bodies-in-the-chapel row will this week lose its accreditation for histopathology - including mortuary and post-mortem facilities.
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Rallying round: as chief executive Ken Williams steps down, support steps up
Ken Williams' wife Jenny is director of health improvement and commissioning at Milton Keynes primary care trust.
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Scotland set for longterm care funding
The Scottish Parliament was set to make a sharp break from English policy on funding elderly people's long-term care this week.
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DoH in £60m staff scheme to think about the future
The Department of Health is to roll out a £60m scheme to give NHS staff 'protected time' to plan their part in the modernisation agenda.
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Funding shortfall as intermediate care loses out to local pressures
Concerns about a funding shortfall for intermediate services have loomed after it emerged that most of the new money, about £500m, has been allocated to local authorities without being ringfenced.