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Days like this
As the final draft of the NHS white paper went to the Cabinet, shadow health secretary Robin Cook released an 'authoritative' summary. It included plans for managers to be given greater pay bargaining flexibility, and tax relief for people over 65 taking out private health insurance. Mr Cook condemned it ...
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Welcome for post-Viagra rationing debate
Health secretary Frank Dobson's proposal to limit prescribing of the anti-impotence drug Viagra has been welcomed as the start of the first national rationing debate.
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Water-tight debate '
Steve Ainsworth does his memory an injustice in assuming the risk of community-wide infection is past. He forgets the vital role that his public health colleagues took in publicising the health risks of water rationing proposed by Yorkshire Water when stocks ran alarmingly low a few years ago.
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Milburn will rush in if Denham fears to tread
Long-awaited PFI guidance leaves knotty problems unresolved
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Hutton is derided for 'pandering to tabloids'
The government's stance on community care came under fire from new quarters last week when junior health minister John Hutton faced more than 300 professionals and activists.
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Keep your distance
Why do so many NHS staff address adult patients by their first names? Many patients do not like it, particularly elderly ones, and especially their relatives. It may be well-meaning to ask patients on admission to hospital, 'What do your friends call you?' or 'What do you like to be ...
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Double negative: a mother's story
Ruth Davies is a lecturer in nursing studies at the University of Wales, and her son was 41st on the list for clozapine when Cardiff Community trust was operating its limited-numbers policy. The trust has now revised its policy, and her son has had his medication switched to the drug.
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Tough targets to take PFI drive forward
The government is set to impose tough new measures to determine the progress of the private finance initiative in the the NHS, according to a confidential document seen by HSJ.
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Private eye
The government has been coy about releasing its long-awaited review of the private finance initiative. Ann Dix reveals what is in it
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Licensing flaws
There is a lack of incentive for firms or hospitals to change an unsatisfactory status quo when it comes to unlicensed drug use in children,
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The way forward: proposed 'improvements' to PFI procurement
A halving of trusts' PFI procurement costs (from 3 or 4 to 2 per cent of capital cost) and the time from when a project is first advertised to financial close (from an average of three years to 18 months).
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The workers' friend
Manor House Healthcare can trace its roots back to September 1914, when a hospital was established in northern France to care for soldiers injured in the First World War.
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Panel games
The system of assessing people for long-term care homes is being subverted for financial reasons - and elderly people are suffering, says Tom Moody
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What can go wrong?
Wound complications, post-operative pain and recurrence are the main problems associated with groin hernia repair. As with other laparoscopic surgery, there have been reports of major internal damage associated with keyhole hernia operations (eg: perforated intestine, haemorrhage and nerve damage).
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Home service
Winter pressure on hospital beds can be reduced by providing emergency care in patients' own homes. Bronwyn Croxson and colleagues explain
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New smear test hope
Scientists have developed a smear test which could end the scandals that have plagued the cervical cancer screening programme.