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League tables omit half the clinical indicators promised by ministers
Fewer than half the clinical indicators promised by ministers last year have been included in revamped NHS league tables published this week.
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Strategy 'schizophrenic' over mentally ill
Government attempts to satisfy 'middle England' and health service staff have led it to create a 'schizophrenic' mental health strategy, according to a leading policy analyst.
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Anger marks charter update
The launch of much-delayed government plans for revamping the Patient's Charter has been marred by anger among advisers asked to help develop a new document.
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Thornicroft denies 'failure' of community care
Community care has not failed, the chair of a government group developing frameworks to support the mental health strategy insisted this week.
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Newham General Hospital, opened in 1983, was one of the first 'Nucleus' hospitals, built using a standardised scheme.
Newham General Hospital, opened in 1983, was one of the first 'Nucleus' hospitals, built using a standardised scheme.
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From showpiece to shambles - St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight
The average hospital maintenance problem is likely to pale into insignificance compared with the latest catastrophe to hit the showpiece low-energy hospital on the Isle of Wight.
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'A quart in a pint pot': Nucleus reconsidered
On the 1979 Man Alive programme, William Tatton-Brown voiced his opposition to the Nucleus building programme. 'The responsibility of standardising and committing the whole country to a single concept is far too great for anybody to carry,' he said.
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'Fantastically different': Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Five years since the opening of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Pam Castro still gets people saying: 'Oh my God,