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Time to choose
Option A Offenders continue to be treated in prison or hospital, depending on whether they have committed a crime.
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Critics pour cold water on plan for 'fair' distribution of Scots funding
A radical plan to redistribute health funding in Scotland has met a mixed response.
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Dobson turns his wrath on PFI critics
Health secretary Frank Dobson tackled critics of the private finance initiative head-on this week, as sceptical MPs quizzed Department of Health officials on the scheme.
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Days like this
Care fears allayed. . . General Synod's market concern. . . Cook calls for £200m. . . Unlikely sponsorships. . . Ambulance complaints rise. . .
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Mental health framework delay risks making it an 'irrelevance'
The government has been warned that delays in issuing its national service framework for mental health risk making it irrelevant.
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How Dobbo and Denham suffered from piles
In a moment of heat the other week, a ministerial adviser told me, 'Remember, Mike, a successful spin exercise isn't always one which results in favourable publicity. Sometimes it results in little or no publicity at all.'
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Experts dub personality disorder imprisonment proposals 'flawed'
Proposals to lock up 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' indefinitely are 'fundamentally flawed', according to mental health experts.
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Dobson fires shot at opportunist lawyers
The only place for lawyers in a hospital 'is on the operating table' - health secretary Frank Dobson told MPs last week.
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Outreach exceeds its grasp
If you are sceptical about the impact of policy documents, whether read or filed in the wastepaper basket, you should consider the case of assertive outreach.
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Report says reforms will raise public's expectations
The massive programme of change in the NHS and other public services will lead the public to demand 'genuine improvements' in standards, according to spending watchdogs. Launching the Audit Commission's annual report, chair Dame Helena Shovelton said the role of public audit and inspection in upholding quality would be 'even ...
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Let stocktake herald fresh start
Assembly is clean slate for relations between managers and ministers
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Mind the gap
Fluoridation campaigners believe they have won the argument, but the detail remains to be resolved. Mark Crail reports
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Public healthcare is 'no longer sustainable'
Government-backed healthcare is in 'turmoil' and private healthcare will see 'explosive growth' in the next decade, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Its study of six western European countries says 'it is becoming increasingly clear that public healthcare systems are no longer sustainable' because of the demands ...
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Sharp implement
The Culyer reforms' impact on patient care may still be uncertain, but they have raised the profile of research which benefits health providers, writes Barbara Millar
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Jail for supply-theft man
A former commercial manager who stole £42,000 from Wirral Hospital trust has been jailed for 21 months.