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Standard issue
The new national service framework for mental health sets out standards without specifying in detail how they should be achieved. Is this a good or bad thing? Laura Donnelly encounters a mixed response
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Crash, bang, wallop
The NHS Primary Care Group Alliance has smashed through the credibility barrier and is now prepared to push its weight around. Mark Crail braved its conference
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Sly and the family Sloanes
Liam Fox's speech to the Conservative Party conference sought to explain the 'Common Sense Revolution' in health policy. Patrick Butler was there
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Cavity brawls
On the eve of a public poll over whether or not to treat Scottish water with fluoride, Barbara Millar revisits the debate over its safety
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Offensive weapons
The killing machines of modern warfare pose a host of ethical and political questions as well as medical ones, as Tash Shifrin observed at a BMA conference
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As the going gets tough the tough get reshuffled
Frank Dobson's Blairite successor will be no easy touch financially
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Private thoughts, public service
Towards the end of the last Conservative government it was a brave NHS manager who openly advocated doing business with the private sector.
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WEB WATCH
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.