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What a nasty complaint
Changes to contracts, guaranteed appointment times, too few extra doctors. . .GPs are getting down to some serious grumbling on the extra pressures they say the NHS plan will bring to the profession. Ann McGauran reports
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A punishing schedule
The education service has suffered a regime of inspection and scrutiny; now it's the turn of the health service. Tash Shifrin reports
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Your money or your life
The hospice movement, a lynchpin of the voluntary sector, is running out of funds. Its leaders say it's time for the NHS to pay for the care of those who use it. Patrick Butler reports
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Sweeter than Honey
The new chief executive of the troubled London Ambulance Service has come in for universal praise. What's his secret, wonders Laura Donnelly
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New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas
Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills
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Time to give nurses their dues
Promise of high salaries for supernurses is little more than a red herring
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Something off the trolley?
If ever you wanted to analyse the effects of spin, the NHS plan is your opportunity. I read it the day it was announced, printed it off the web, and was overwhelmed by its contents, about 150 pages of ideas.
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It's US cash on delivery for the mother superior
August is the silly season, so we should not panic about the decline of seriousness when the papers, broadsheet as well as tabloid, over-react to William Hague's 14 teenage pints or to Madonna's strictures on British gynaecology.
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Out of order
The government's promise of £300m for new equipment comes after two decades of under-investment, which have left much life-saving machinery obsolete. Colin Connolly reports
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Counter argument
The NHS plan proposes a much wider role for community pharmacies - and this is long overdue, says Nick Bosanquet
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Local counsel
An enterprising recruitment scheme is tackling the under-representation of people from ethnic minorities in the NHS and social care workforce by nurturing talent on its own doorstep. Janet Snell reports