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Dramatic licence
Cancer patients are not benefiting from the large number of new drugs available because purchasers will be reluctant to fund them until they have the NICE seal of approval. Jenny Bryan squares the circle
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Rays of hope
Improved imaging techniques mean radiotherapy is potentially capable of saving many more lives - but staff shortages and lack of equipment are hampering progress, writes Jenny Bryan
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Family value
Hospice-at-home services can provide support to families in a way that is impossible in a medical setting. Claire Laurent reports
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Simple is still the best
Conventional surgery by specialists is still the key to eliminating tumours, alongside adjuvant therapies, writes Geoff Watts
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Probation periods
Britain's list of randomised controlled trials runs to more than 500. Geoff Watts summarises a few of the major ones
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monitor
One question dominates Monitor's every waking hour. Oh, we know that Alan Milburn swaggers about being manly in the way that only a Geordie can - Monitor's maiden aunt still blushes at the thought of Jimmy Nail's stirring performance in Crocodile Shoes - but where does our Al get his ...
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Dear Mel. . .
At one time it was very important to consider the length of time patients waited for admission to hospital. Is this still the case?
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Past masters
A report on workforce planning offers a serious challenge to the way doctors - and their royal colleges - work. Daloni Carlisle reports
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Nought for your comfort
Health service workers were told to blame managers, not ministers, for low pay - and the rest - at Unison's healthcare conference. Kaye McIntosh reports
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No way out
Government plans to lock up dangerous people with severe personality disorders have met with almost blanket opposition from mental health professionals. So where to now? Laura Donnelly reports
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Streets ahead
It is New Labour's 50th local initiative, but can the national strategy for neighbourhood renewal, which has public service provision at its heart, succeed where others have failed? Matt Weaver reports
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A cat among the pigeons
A proposal that NICE should evaluate the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines before the NHS prescribes them is ruffling feathers. Lynn Eaton reports
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Say whatever you like, but keep it strictly to yourself
A mature, open debate on the NHS is impossible if dissent is quashed
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The drawing board beckons
Mental health policy must not be led by the hysteria of the tabloid press
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Co-operation without politics
With less than a month before the London mayoral election, most voters are none the wiser about which candidate is most likely to work effectively in the interests of Londoners' health.
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How Tone's tunnel vision was diagnosed on spec
We should have spotted how enthusiastic - and how calculating - Tony Blair was going to get over health politics when he hosted that 'joint ministerial committee'on health matters in Cardiff the other Friday.