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Bad reception as Gisela holds on to the party line
A page 2 special in The Sun sent me scurrying back to a neglected Commons debate of three weeks ago. You know the kind of package: huge 'NHS helpline doubles the cost of treatment' headline over a rather smaller amount of text - 250 words maximum - which does not ...
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Blade runners
In a 50-hour working week, an orthopaedic surgeon spends an average of seven hours operating. Are we simply wasting their skills, ask John Yates and colleagues
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It's a stitch-up
A scheme to improve home care and cut the length of hospital stay for elderly patients succeeded by integrating primary care services. David Powell and Ed Peile report
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Pioneering spirits
In our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Maura Thompson asks two health promotion workers to describe their work
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Battling mother is definitely not in the club
'Someone once described the NHS to me as a perfect illustration of the British class system, where groups are divided into categories whose members ostensibly live and work in the same world, but which actually do much to ensure that the dividing lines between them remain in place.'
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Bill aims to help unjustly suspended doctors
A bill to protect hospital doctors who are unjustly suspended under 'crazy' trust disciplinary systems at a cost to the NHS of millions of pounds has been introduced in the House of Lords.
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In brief: Chronic medical conditions
The government should establish a ministerial responsibility for long-term chronic medical conditions as a way of recognising its significance and raising its profile, said Labour MP and health committee member Howard Stoate. Dr Stoate said : 'We have ceased to deal with it (chronic illness) with the urgency it deserves.'
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In brief: Alcohol misuse
The Department of Health plans to launch a consultation paper about a national strategy to tackle alcohol misuse 'later this year', said public health minister Yvette Cooper.
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In brief: NHS logo
The NHS re-branding exercise, in which all NHS organisations are required to adopt the corporate NHS logo, will not result in any extra costs or work, said health minister John Denham. He added that new organisations such as primary care groups would save money by adopting the NHS mark rather ...