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Your good health
The mood was unanimously upbeat at a UK Public Health Association forum as the organisation turned a year old. Tash Shifrin soaked up the good vibrations
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Cut to the quick
A rapid-response team is offering patients support after leaving hospital - or helping them avoid admission altogether. Kaye McIntosh explains
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It's drinking-up time in the NHS's last-chance saloon
The government is alienating its vital partners in NHS reform
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Now for some ghetto-blasting
In his London School of Economics health lecture, delivered in March, health secretary Alan Milburn made some important remarks about public health and its place within the NHS.
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Milburn vents his fury as Lakeland scandal unfolds
Political correspondents, who had been summoned at short notice, had to wait a few minutes in the foyer of the Department of Health in Whitehall while the secretary of state's previous engagement overran. The wait only served to heighten the drama.
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Turn of the screw
Even when a merger is carefully planned and handled with sensitivity, staff will still experience long-term upset, writes Sandy Gillett
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Future uncertain as HEA shuts its doors
The future of health education and campaigning was under threat this week as the Health Education Authority closed, with 140 redundancies.
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'Six months to avert crisis' claim
The government has just six months 'to save the NHS', Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, announced this week.
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Senior manager equality targets set out to smash NHS glass ceiling
Health minister John Denham has announced tough new targets to break the 'glass ceiling' in NHS management and ensure that women and ethnic minorities secure more of the top posts.