All Lib Dem policy articles – Page 12
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Lib Dems call for extra cash and more transparency
Published: 11/4/2002, Volume II2, No. 5800 Page 6
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Liberal Democrats better public service investment' 'We are the only consistent advocates for
Richard Renaut, service manager for general surgery, urology and paediatric surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, is fighting North East Cambridgeshire for the Lib Dems.
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Lib Dems set out manifesto
The Liberal Democrats have launched a 'mini-manifesto' for health, promising to cut waiting times by providing an extra 10,000 beds and recruiting more doctors and nurses.
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Analysis of Lib Dem health plans got the good news right - and the bad news wrong
Paul Stephenson's 'Election 2001' news focus ('Spot the difference', pages 12-13, 8 March) gave welcome coverage to Liberal Democrat plans for more training places for doctors, nurses and therapists; more beds; more scanners; pay rises for low-paid NHS professionals;
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Conservatives and Lib Dems fail in attempt to thwart abolition of CHCs
The government's plan to abolish community health councils came under renewed fire from MPs this week.
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Lib Dems urge reprieve for CHCs
Liberal Democrats have urged the government to abandon its decision to abolish community health councils and reform them instead.
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Lib Dems call for change on medical injury
The government got a partial vote of approval from Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick Harvey, who told the NHS Confederation conference: 'I don't think they are going fast enough or making the progress they should.'
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems blast delay in releasing DoH target check
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the government's delays in releasing an assessment of all the targets set for the Department of Health.They claim that the 1998 white paper The New NHS has generated over 2,000 measures to be monitored - with more at lower levels. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick ...
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Lib Dem attacks NICE's 'hidden' rationing role
The Liberal Democrats' promise to adopt a 'more trenchant oppositionist approach' to the government was delivered in an attack on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence by the party's former health spokesman, Dr Evan Harris.
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems hit out over 'sneaking rationing into NICE'
The government has been accused of 'sneaking rationing' into the remit of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris condemned the government's 'dishonesty' in amending the statutory instrument establishing NICE. The first draft of the instrument says NICE 'shall perform such functions in accordance with ...
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In Brief: Shake-up of the Liberal Democrats
A shake-up of the Liberal Democrats' frontbench team has seen Nick Harvey take over as health spokesperson, with support from Dr Peter Brand. Simon Hughes and Dr Evan Harris, who used to speak on health, have taken on the briefs for home affairs, and for higher education and women, respectively.
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news in brief Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes has launched care standards for people with multiple sclerosis living in residential and nursing homes, drawn up by Leonard Cheshire and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. They call for residents to have a role in running homes and give advice on staff recruitment and training, ...
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Lib Dem takes health chair
Kirsty Williams, the Liberal Democrats' Welsh Assembly member for Brecon and Radnorshire, has been appointed chair of its health and social services committee.