All Primary care articles – Page 284
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Michael white on politics
'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''
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Michael White on politics
'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'
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Michael White on politics
'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'
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Michael White on politics
'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'
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Michael White on politics
'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'
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Michael white on politics
'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'
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Michael White on politics
Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.
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Michael White on politics
'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'
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Media watch
The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.
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Media watch
Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.
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Media watch
'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'
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Media watch
So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.
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Media Watch
'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'
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Media Watch
The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.
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Media Watch
Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.
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Media Watch
'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'
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Media Watch
'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''
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Media Watch
News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.