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Socialist Alliance 'Labour is no longer following Bevan's agenda'
East End GP Dr Kambiz Boomla is standing against health secretary Alan Milburn's parliamentary private secretary, Jim Fitzpatrick, in Poplar and Canning Town, where the Labour majority is 18,915.
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Plaid Cymru 'It is very important that MPs have a broad life experience'
Plaid Cymru's Ann Owen says the Conwy constituency is 'a marginal'. She adds: 'According to the Western Mail it was the seat most likely to change hands in Wales.'
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Good to see you, Mr Hill
Downing Street's health policy adviser is a man of mystery and intrigue.
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Bodies politic
Changes to the way in which nurses, midwives and PAMs are regulated could have a profound effect on the running of the NHS.Andrew Cole reports
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Slow motion
Failure to force the pace of change in Scotland has been a source of enormous frustration to those on the ground - and to the Scottish health minister.
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Scotch guard
Scotland's answer to NICE has at last published some responses to the English body's judgements.How will the Scottish 'context'define its verdicts, wonders Jennifer Trueland
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Snoozing through yet another wake-up call
Repeated warnings on locums ignored in NHS's own inimitable fashion
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'Balanced and useful' indicators
Is this an admission that their predecessors were unbalanced and useless?
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Why not cull humans too?
'The outbreak of TB begs the question: in what circumstances - if any - might culling of a human population be considered?'
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And they're off - they've started so they'll finish
There was a final lull before the election storm broke in all its artificial fury this week, a lull during which we caught a glimpse of the landscape over which the storm will rage for the next four weeks.
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Winning ways
The government wants all trusts to have a patient-advocacy service by next year.Penny Dunman, a patient advocate for seven years, has tips on how to win friends and influence people
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Going nowhere
EU schemes set up to encourage patients to cross borders for treatment have enjoyed little take-up. Jon Sussex looks at the reasons why