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Mike White on politics
'The Lansley policy is that an independent body should allocate resources to each PCT according to need, largely age-related; that health inequality budgets should be paid to directors of public health; and that the shift to a new weighted capitation formula should be done over several years to prevent budget ...
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Mike White on politics
'Mr Blair retains a lot more drive and determination than Mr Major had (ever), but his authority is fading'
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Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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Michael White on politics
'All's fair in love and politics and Labour used to say 'Tory cuts' when it really meant smaller increases'
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Michael White on politics
In my youth the old Liberal Party could squeeze into Margate or magnificent Scarborough
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Michael white on politics
'NHS managers planning new hospitals or services might start thinking greener than they have done up to now'
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Michael White on politics
What made me flinch wasn't those weekend reports that UK cancer patients are turning to Canadian online pharmacies for drugs they cannot yet get on the NHS.
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Michael white on politics
'Don?t think, Mr or Ms Finance Director, that you can force Ms Hewitt out by hiring some extra doctors or buying a fleet of scanners'
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Michael White on politics
' The DoH is officially saying nothing, but my chums tell me they have no qualms about the quality of the iSoft product'
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Michael White on politics
'Does the first glimpse of the new, kinder Tory health policy amount to much? Blair didn't think so'
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Michael White on politics
Sunday night is usually quietly un-newsy and health politics is no exception. But not last Sunday night, when it emerged that British Medical Association chair James Johnson had fallen on his scalpel over the medical fiasco.
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Michael White on politics
It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales
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Michael White on politics
'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'
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Michael white on politics
'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'
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Mediawatch
New year, new resolutions, and even the media is backing smokers on their quest to kick the habit.
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Media Watch
'Ding dong as hospital bans carollers,' said The Daily Telegraphas it revealed that the Torbay Gospelaires had been banned from entering Torbay hospital wards.
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Media Watch
So began the week of blanket coverage of the British Medical Association’s annual whinge-fest conference
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Media Watch
Everyone was looking the other way on 16 June when the Financial Timesbroke the story that the government was advertising for private sector primary care trust management services.