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Insurance policy
It's not 'repugnant' privatisation and he doesn't have any himself, but shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox thinks health insurance is the key to improving health outcomes, as he tells Patrick Butler
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Spell it out for me
Primary care groups and trusts must be crystal clear on what action they will take when guidelines from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence arrive, says Alan Earl-Slater
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Well-laid plans
Insurance companies tapping into NHS funds through PFI schemes are blurring the boundaries between private and public health provision in search of greater profits, argue Stewart Player and colleagues
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NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal
Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.
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First-wave PCTs could number 19
Up to 19 independent primary care trusts could be established in the first wave of the government's reform of community and family health services next April.
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NHS 'on target for Y2K'
The Department of Health has declared the NHS 'ready' for the millennium date change.
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Short Cuts: Doctors to get benefits advice training
Doctors are to get special training to improve the quality, consistency and accuracy of medical advice on benefit entitlement, social security minister Hugh Bayley announced last week. He told MPs that he was determined to change the low status of disability assessment medicine in the medical profession and inadequate government ...
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Fake incidents mar campaign against violence on NHS staff
The government's 'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign to counter violence against NHS staff has been found to be using fake incidents in its publicity material.
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Langlands points to shared responsibilities of all
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands told the inquiry last week that individuals and 'the system' were responsible for preventing clinical failures.
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Growth area
Cancer services have received a boost, following new health secretary Alan Milburn's 'three Cs' pledge. But a report questions whether 'open access' arrangements actually lead to quicker treatment, writes Barbara Millar