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Mind-blowing:
Mind-blowing: a scan of the brain of artist Jayne Gouge, taken by a magnetic resonance image scanner and superimposed on a family photograph, forms part of an exhibition 'exploring how everyday objects look under the exploratory eye of the MRI scanner'. The 'Chimera' show at London's Institute of Child Health ...
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McFall 'vision' paper would halve NI trusts
The number of health and social services trusts would be halved and commissioning handed over to primary care professionals under radical proposals launched by Northern Ireland health minister John McFall.
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Dyke: 'Patients not to blame for no-shows'
Three out of four patients who fail to show up for a doctor's appointment do so because of poor communications and management systems, according to a leading government adviser.
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Days like these
Reforms not negotiable... Islington 'deplores' white paper... Vulnerable 'will lose out'... Boots' hospital invite... Ambulance tendering
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Looking to lobby
Richard Thomas has spent the past two years 'living in a goldfish bowl' of 'intense media interest' in the future of Swansea's troubled Morriston Hospital trust.
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The New NHS Charter: Greg Dyke's proposals
A statement setting out the guiding principles of the NHS.
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Safe-cracking
Imminent merger will not lessen the heat on a trust under fire over health and safety. Years of scrutiny are still ahead, writes Barbara Millar
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Who's who on the inquiry panel
Professor Ian Kennedy (left) chair, is a leading expert on medical law and ethics. Crucially, he is not a doctor but is widely respected by the medical establishment. He has sat on several government advisory groups looking at AIDS, xenotransplantation and quarantine, and is professor of health law, ethics and ...
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Idle hands must not tinker with devolution's big issues Politicians may interfere with health if chiefs and chairs are not clued up
It surely says something about the uncertainties of devolution that Northern Ireland's health minister can put forward a plan for reforming health and social services broadly on a par with the white paper shake- ups of England, Scotland and Wales only to have his carefully worked-through proposals welcomed as 'an ...