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Blade runners
In a 50-hour working week, an orthopaedic surgeon spends an average of seven hours operating. Are we simply wasting their skills, ask John Yates and colleagues
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Simple is still the best
Conventional surgery by specialists is still the key to eliminating tumours, alongside adjuvant therapies, writes Geoff Watts
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Battling mother is definitely not in the club
'Someone once described the NHS to me as a perfect illustration of the British class system, where groups are divided into categories whose members ostensibly live and work in the same world, but which actually do much to ensure that the dividing lines between them remain in place.'
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Bad reception as Gisela holds on to the party line
A page 2 special in The Sun sent me scurrying back to a neglected Commons debate of three weeks ago. You know the kind of package: huge 'NHS helpline doubles the cost of treatment' headline over a rather smaller amount of text - 250 words maximum - which does not ...
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Minister rejects Fritchie criticism of political fixing as 'anecdotal'
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has indicated that the government is unwilling to accept a report by the commissioner for public appointments that concluded NHS boards have been 'politicised in a systematic way'.
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Ambulance staff walk out in dispute over back pay
Hull was left with virtually no ambulance cover for nearly three hours in an unofficial walk-out over back pay that 'frightened' union officials. Unison is now preparing to vote on official industrial action in a dispute over back pay, while Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust says that ...
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In brief: Alcohol misuse
The Department of Health plans to launch a consultation paper about a national strategy to tackle alcohol misuse 'later this year', said public health minister Yvette Cooper.
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Bill aims to help unjustly suspended doctors
A bill to protect hospital doctors who are unjustly suspended under 'crazy' trust disciplinary systems at a cost to the NHS of millions of pounds has been introduced in the House of Lords.
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Caught in the act
To what extent will the Human Rights Act, which becomes law in October, increase the scope of trusts' and health authorities' liabilities? Daloni Carlisle reports
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Achievement that puts a fresh perspective on local concerns
The eradication of polio shows even the greatest barriers can be crossed
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Primary care to get just £1m
Doubt has been cast on the government's commitment to a primary care in Northern Ireland after it was awarded less than 2 per cent of the extra Budget cash.
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No way out
Government plans to lock up dangerous people with severe personality disorders have met with almost blanket opposition from mental health professionals. So where to now? Laura Donnelly reports
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One question dominates Monitor's every waking hour. Oh, we know that Alan Milburn swaggers about being manly in the way that only a Geordie can - Monitor's maiden aunt still blushes at the thought of Jimmy Nail's stirring performance in Crocodile Shoes - but where does our Al get his ...