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British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'
People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.
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£70m earmarked to treat dangerous disorders
The Home Office is putting £70m behind a threeyear programme of pilot projects for treating people with dangerous severe personality disorder.
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'Tidy up' blamed for IHM's missing 1,500
The Institute of Healthcare Management has admitted to having just 8,500 members - up to 1,500 fewer than was claimed when it was formed in October last year.
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PFI pioneer builds up backlog of 3,000 'unreported'x-rays
The country's first fully operational private finance initiative hospital has amassed a backlog of about 3,000 'unreported' x-rays since its official opening in April.
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Anti-poverty policies may save 10,000 lives
More than 10,000 premature deaths per year will be saved if the government persists with policies to combat poverty and reduce health inequalities, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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Reviewing the reviews
Few managers - even those who have struggled long and hard to push through unpopular acute beds cuts - are willing to contemplate that their service reviews might have to be scrapped in the light of Mr Milburn's instruction to plan for increases.
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Not quite the whole tooth
Dental strategy is welcome, but HAs must act now to fill gaps in provision
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Pump up the volume
Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate
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Public services 'shouldn't be run privately'
Unison has claimed that more than 60 per cent of the public believe that public services should be run using directly employed workers.
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in person
Sandy Hogg has become director of finance at University Hospitals of Leicester trust, where new chief executive Peter Reading recently completed his management team. Ms Hogg has worked in the health service for 17 years, most recently as director of finance and procurement for Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust.
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Mac, not Machiavelli
Scotland's new chief medical officer is defecting from the BMA. Poacher turned gamekeeper, or just an honest diplomat, asks Colin Wright
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Out on a limb
Implementing evidence-based changes in healthcare Edited by David Evans and Andrew Haines Radcliffe Medical Press 320 pages £27. 50 paperback
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For what it's worth
A trust's system to give all staff annual statements on their pension entitlements has been taken up nationally. Mike Colman and Paul Robinson report
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Tough guidelines will tackle illegal tobacco sales
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has launched a new set of guidelines, developed with the Department of Trade and Industry with support from trading standards officers and local authorities, to 'get tough' on shop-keepers who sell cigarettes to under-age children. The tobacco enforcement protocol sets out best practice on issues ...
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It'll never get well if you picket
While the country struggled along in grudging acceptance of the fuel blockade, two regional public health directors tackled the picket lines head on.
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Get some in
Alan Milburn says he wants a new drive to boost bed numbers - but how easy will it be to achieve this at grassroots level, asks Thelma Agnew