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The generation claim
Worries are mounting that support for the NHS is dwindling among young people. But the evidence suggests the truth is more complicated, says Shirley McIver
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Eye off the ball?
Free training, free valuation and free materials failed to persuade GPs to show interest in a mental health selfcare package. Ann Richards and colleagues tried to explain the apathy
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Travellers' checks
If people will travel to Belgium to buy a new car, why can't they do the same for a hip operation? Is a European health market about to open up? And if so, how will the NHS fare in the stormy waters of competition? Martin Wakeley reports
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Outpatient waiting
Understanding how the outpatient system interacts with the rest of the NHS is important - but assessing waiting-list performance is far from straightforward, writes John Appleby
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CHCs' successor bodies 'set to cost five times as much to run'
The successor bodies to community health councils - to be abolished in the Health and Social Care Bill - will cost nearly five times as much to run, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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As 'dirty hospitals' clean up their act, ward sisters acquire powers over sub-standard companies
Follow-up visits to 50 'dirty hospital' trusts which failed inspection standards last autumn have revealed that 41 of them have moved from 'red' to 'amber' status.
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Over 100 labs 'h had mortuary problems'
The hospital at the centre of the bodies-in-the-chapel row will this week lose its accreditation for histopathology - including mortuary and post-mortem facilities.
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Rallying round: as chief executive Ken Williams steps down, support steps up
Ken Williams' wife Jenny is director of health improvement and commissioning at Milton Keynes primary care trust.
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Scotland set for longterm care funding
The Scottish Parliament was set to make a sharp break from English policy on funding elderly people's long-term care this week.
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DoH in £60m staff scheme to think about the future
The Department of Health is to roll out a £60m scheme to give NHS staff 'protected time' to plan their part in the modernisation agenda.
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Funding shortfall as intermediate care loses out to local pressures
Concerns about a funding shortfall for intermediate services have loomed after it emerged that most of the new money, about £500m, has been allocated to local authorities without being ringfenced.
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Edgware probe sparks national guidance rejig
A government watchdog has called for changes to NHS Executive guidance in the wake of its investigation into the controversial hospital reconfiguration in Edgware.