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Politicians can't swim against the silver tide
Soon elderly people will have so many votes that politicians will have to listen to them, the annual social services conference has been told. Tash Shifrin reports
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Finding their feet
Shaky beginnings maybe, but the Sure Start scheme is a sure-fire success with local people. Claire Laurent reports
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Cloud on the silver lining
The brighter outlook for those diagnosed with HIV is putting a financial strain on long-term support services. Laura Donnelly reports on how they are coping
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The long and the short of it is an all-round cash crisis
Government pension policies are pushing more people into a poverty trap
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A cultural flaw in the plan
Slow progress of quality reforms exposes the NHS plan's major weakness
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Cancel that taxi, it's NHSnet
In 1992, we were promised that all NHS organisations would be communicating across NHSnet by 1996.In 1998, we were promised that 100 per cent of computerised GPs would be on the net by the end of 1999.We have just been promised 95 per cent by 2001 and 100 per cent ...
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WEB WATCH
Poring over reports and attending hospital meetings doesn't sound like fun? You'd be surprised. . . Those are the words of trust nonexecutive Pauline Mistry. She goes on to explain how her role at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospitals trust involves 'sorting out the cock-ups' and 'disagreeing with some of the things ...
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Moment of madness ends cash injection triumph
As I write, they are discussing rail regulation, in the wake of the Hatfield crash, on Radio 4.But that was last week's disaster. A few minutes earlier they had been talking about this week's disaster: the renewed controversy over BSE triggered by the Phillips report, by the fresh scare in ...
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Scope to improve
Clinical governance has yet to alter NHS culture, according to a survey of trusts. Kieran Walshe and colleagues report on their findings