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A tax on the poor, a tax on stupidity - the National Lottery has been called many things, lots of them uncomplimentary, and particularly so a few minutes after 8pm each Saturday. But with the New Opportunities Fund handing out used fivers by the wheelbarrow-load, could some in the NHS ...
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NHS beware Tory Foxtrot with a Trojan horse
It's hard to concentrate on, say, Tory conference health policy when there is so much distracting noise offstage. All last week in Blackpool we could hear Lady Thatcher, Ken Clarke and Co banging around on the conference fringe like ageing rock stars.
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To catch a thief
The announcement that children and pensioners will be required to provide proof of their age to claim free prescriptions is only the latest stage in a growing war against fraud in the NHS. Seamus Ward reports
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NHS emergency plans stand up to Paddington pressures
Early verdicts on the Paddington rail crash, which killed up to 40 people and injured 150, are that NHS emergency plans stood up to the pressures of 'a classic major incident'.
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Welsh Assembly in security review
The Welsh Assembly is to investigate the lessons to be learned from an armed incident which 'crippled' an entire hospital.
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Milburn back to finish what he started
Alan Milburn's return to the Department of Health this week was met with an almost universal welcome.
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Slow start for PCT take-up
The first wave of primary care trusts, due to go live next April, may amount to just one 'demonstration site' in each of the eight English regions, according to HSJ sources.
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Enthusiasm bypass: Wales goes it alone
An alternative to primary care trusts is likely to be developed in Wales, following a consultation exercise that 'did not suggest there is widespread enthusiasm' for PCTs.
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First principles
Setting up a widely-based team to consider ethical issues has enabled one PCG to move beyond individual opinion. John Ribchester and Caroline Baker report
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Protest and survive
Patients, power and politics From patients to citizens By Christine Hogg Sage Publications 213 pages £49