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'Free NHS is an anachronism'
The first moves to map out a radical right-wing agenda for healthcare beyond the Conservative election defeat emerged this week as the Social Market Foundation condemned the principle of a free NHS as an 'anachronism'.
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The graduate
Nursing auxiliary Sharon Smith meets education secretary David Blunkett as he visits Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, to launch a scheme offering staff who missed out on formal education the opportunity to 'return to learn'. Fifteen members of staff are taking part in the project, which is a joint initiative by ...
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where are they now? No 80 Iris Isbister
Pocket Profile: Personal friend of deposed Tory Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth and former chair of Forth Valley health board, who resigned amid a bitter row over an acute services review.
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Going, going. . . not yet gone
Everyone agrees the government should get rid of the Mental Health Act. But they may be disappointed. Mark Gould reports
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Balancing the boardrooms: rules could still be tighter
comment: The NHS is too precious to belong to just one party or government
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A 'third way' to promotion?
comment: Health minister's vision is safely built on public service values
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Why locality hospitals should be retained as part of a bigger system
Letters: New models for small hospitals
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Fair shares of the kitty?
Are chief executives overpaid? Barbara Millar investigates the controversy surrounding managers' pay
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Tone of contention
Attacked by the press and dogged by controversy, South Africa's health minister, who will be speaking at next week's NHS Confederation conference in London, is, nonetheless, a gutsy reformer. And she's not afraid to take on her critics. Pat Sidley reports
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Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the third most common cause of death in the UK - around 80 per cent of patients die within a year of diagnosis. New guidance says the focus should be on prevention, palliative care and specialist teams. Arabella Melville and colleagues repo
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Opening up
Managing high security psychiatric care Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey Jessica Kingsley Publishers 240 pages £19.95