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Short cuts London Ambulance Service fails to meet time target
London Ambulance Service trust has recorded a dramatic rise in response times, according to papers due to be discussed at a board meeting this week. LAS has failed to meet Patient's Charter performance standards, which say crews should reach 50 per cent of emergency calls within eight minutes and 95 ...
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Take it from the top The New Health Network is impeccably connected, but is it a political front organisation? Not at all, say its organisers. Mark Crail reports
When prime minister Tony Blair sends a specially recorded video urging people to join your cause and health secretary Frank Dobson rolls up in person to underline the plea, you know you have high-level backing.
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All Right now The new reforms would be unthinkable without the Thatcher years, says Professor Alain Enthoven, architect of the internal market. Mark Crail reports
'Despite the rhetoric, and I can understand that every political party wants to distance itself from the other one, I do see that a lot of what is happening is building on the reforms of the early 1990s,' says Professor Alain Enthoven.
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'Airline ticket' approach to consultations will hit needy
Suddenly we have been told that NHS Direct will go far beyond an advisory telephone service, with every practice connected to it and direct- access services in main streets and shopping malls, though independent investigators are beginning to question the cost-effectiveness of the basic telephone service.
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Foreign exchange: lessons from abroad
While international comparisons are always difficult, some lessons can be gleaned from the experience of other countries with stricter regulation than the UK. Such policies have failed to reduce the national drugs bill.
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Royal visits Patron has proved a loyal friend since 1965
I know that your list 'who does what' of royal patronage was not intended to be exhaustive ('Roll out the red carpet', 8 April), but I should point out that Princess Alexandra has been associated with our hospital since its opening in 1965 and agreed last year to continue as ...
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monitor
Monitor has been much struck of late by Joe McCrae's charming new persona. Whisper who dares, but sources (as we journos put it) suggest that Dobbo's formidable enforcer may have gone just a little bit native down in Whitehall. Perhaps he has been reading his job description. It is a ...
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On the Wight track for making waves
The Isle of Wight's health improvement programme already incorporates the local community care plan, as did the three previous fully joint annual island plans for health and social care.
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Health promotion is key to public health
Public health may indeed benefit from a radical rethink, as suggested by Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', pages 28-29, 15 April), but it should also consider its relationship with health promotion.
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Ministers give London mayor a public health role
Ministers have bowed to demands from health campaigners to give London's mayor responsibility for public health issues.