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More harm than good?
There is pressure to extend the UK's two national cancer screening programmes to other cancers. But will the benefits outweigh the risks? Wendy Moore reports
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Stranger than friction
Number-crunching former chief executive Jim Waits encountered political infighting at close range. Now he has written a novel about it. Laura Donnelly reports
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Trusts reprimanded for flouting pay guidance
Trusts in Northern Ireland have been reprimanded after more than half of them flouted government guidance on senior managers' pay, amid a row over its clarity.
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WHO fires first
Negotiating a ceasefire in the Sudan is just one aspect of the World Health Organisation's plan to eradicate polio. Lynn Eaton reports
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Family value
Hospice-at-home services can provide support to families in a way that is impossible in a medical setting. Claire Laurent reports
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Dramatic licence
Cancer patients are not benefiting from the large number of new drugs available because purchasers will be reluctant to fund them until they have the NICE seal of approval. Jenny Bryan squares the circle
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Why it should pay to stand up in defence of managers
A fairer and more accountable system for determining salaries is a must
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Ministers rush out plan to halt spiralling generic drug costs
Health ministers plan to abolish a scheme under which drug companies have been 'taking advantage of the NHS' to increase dramatically the price of unbranded medicines.
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Confessions of the uninformed
I thought I was unshockable after years of running a patient organisation and sitting on innumerable committees as the token patient representative. But after two recent meetings I found that I'm not.
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Concern for growing Northern Ireland suicide rates
Health and social services boards in Northern Ireland should designate a co-ordinator to advise on suicide and liaise with community and voluntary services, says a draft mental health strategy published last week. The strategy also calls for information and training for a wide range of professionals, more use of risk ...
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Livingstone pledges a healthy London commission
London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone's manifesto, unveiled last week, promises to 'ensure that improving the health of Londoners is a central objective of all the mayor and assembly's policies' and to 'appoint a healthy London commission to advise the mayor and assembly on a health improvement programme for London'. Mr ...
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Chief defends private
A leading chief executive's attempt to stop his medical condition becoming the talk of his trust backfired last week when details of his private operation were leaked to the local press.
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Call for continence guidelines to be made mandatory
The Continence Campaign has called for government guidelines on continence services to be made mandatory. National co-ordinator Gill Kirk welcomed the 'thorough work and consideration' that had gone into last week's guidelines, but said it was a 'crying shame the government has no intention of actively enforcing its own recommendations'. ...
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In brief: Chronic medical conditions
The government should establish a ministerial responsibility for long-term chronic medical conditions as a way of recognising its significance and raising its profile, said Labour MP and health committee member Howard Stoate. Dr Stoate said : 'We have ceased to deal with it (chronic illness) with the urgency it deserves.'
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In brief: NHS logo
The NHS re-branding exercise, in which all NHS organisations are required to adopt the corporate NHS logo, will not result in any extra costs or work, said health minister John Denham. He added that new organisations such as primary care groups would save money by adopting the NHS mark rather ...
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Funding clash ends in loss of 'candid' Eastern board chair
A Northern Ireland health and social services board has lost its chair after a public spat with the government over funding.
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Blowing hot and cold
GPs are still resentful of the NHS Direct helpline, not least because of the funding it receives, Lynne Greenwood discovers