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'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict
A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...
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After the gold rush
The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH
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The 'free-for-all' in freefall
Some deft re-wording was enough to save the day when Scotland's wrangling over personal care costs turned ugly. Lynn Eaton examines the new promises
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State of the union
Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.
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Labour's deal: an at-a-glance guide to the Scottish solution
Susan Deacon's original proposals:
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A sense of balance in the wake of Alder Hey report
Growing public distrust of medicine must be assuaged not encouraged
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For PEATs' sake, be realistic
Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation
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On short rations
As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports
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The tides they are a changing
Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Stephen Thornton Job: Chief executive, NHS Confederation Style: Was asked to leave school because - young leader in the making - he stood firm and refused to shave off his beard. But recently modernised his chin in clean-shaven Milburn-like style. A keen Baptist - and (a mole tells us) ...
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Yawning gap in perceptions as 'Giggles'Denham struts his stuff
It is funny noticing what really matters to people when the world is crashing down around them. I spent last Saturday at a Fabian Society conference, when Peter Mandelson's world lay in ruins and, rather more literally, so did a sizeable chunk of western India.
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Of mice and moose: a gut feeling over antibiotics out in the field
The bacteriology of moose, deer and bank voles is not a topic often mentioned in the pages of HSJ. When I tell you that a study from rural Finland reported in Nature (4 January) has shown that gut bacteria from the faeces of all three species are almost completely devoid ...