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Trolley bad show dashes any lingering hopes
Comment: NHS plan targets are drifting further from being achieved on time
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Victims of the blame game
Comment: Pointing the finger at managers means pointing it at ministers, too
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Law is an ass - but in possession of a spliffingly good idea
I am not convinced that the week's most significant tabloid headline was The Mirror's pun on the Jo Moore affair. 'Today is a very good day to bury Alan Milburn' was its reaction to his decision to double the number of NHS-funded private ops just as the Audit Commission reported ...
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Lies, damned lies and spinners
wait watcher What can we make of the Department of Health's waiting-list statistics or, more specifically, their nonappearance? Professor John Yates asks whether it is a case of government spin or plain lies
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A study on ambulance response times has found that 59 per cent of people using the 999 service in East Anglia over-estimated the time they actually waited for an emergency ambulance. Three thousand patients, carers and relatives were interviewed by East Anglian Ambulance trust and Anglia Polytechnic University. Only 17 ...