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Government stalls on long term care again
The government's decision on who should fund long-term care has been put off until next summer - more than a year after a royal commission recommended that the state should foot the bill.
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MPs' ignorance shown
Lack of knowledge about mental health laws does not stop MPs claiming a 'specific interest' in mental health, according to a survey by mental health charity MACA.
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Sense of portrayal
Former Bethlem and Maudsley trust chief executive Eric Byers, as seen by artist Joely Goodman, who painted 30 portraits of trust executives and service users for a series titled A Portrayal of the Psychiatric System.
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Bottomley challenges Milburn on 'dire' NHS
Former Conservative health secretary Virginia Bottomley says the NHS in her West Surrey constituency is in a 'dire' state and has called for health secretary Alan Milburn to see the extent of bed blocking and trolley waits for himself.
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Trusts set to merge after volatile spell
The management of two neighbouring community trusts is to merge after a turbulent spell in which both were temporarily without chief executives.
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Days like this
Lobby opposes NHS Bill. . . Managers want reforms scaled down. . .£103m for IT. . . New DoH deputy secretary. . . Hospital plan opposed
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Troubles ahead
Northern Ireland's new health minister will have to contend with stretched resources and rivals who are suspicious of her every move, writes Seamus Ward
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Publish and be damned
Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Warming to hotspots: Barry Elliott
Incoming HFMA chair Barry Elliott is a man used to political hotspots. Since joining the NHS in 1983 - he spent his early career in local government - he has worked in a number of areas inextricably associated with newspaper headlines.
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Loss cause
Eighty-five ex-employees of a privatised NHS consultancy who lost their pensions when it went to the wall have reached a settlement - but the fight goes on for those still awaiting justice. Patrick Butler reports
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Penalty kicks
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country under the terms of the new Immigration and Asylum Act will make it harder than ever for them to access medical services. Barbara Millar reports
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Sight for sore eyes
Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.
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Rocking the boat without fear and with confidence
The right to criticise policy must be for the many, not the few
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WEB WATCH
In an era replete with New Age quacks and frauds who assert the curative and health-enhancing benefits of anything from gemstones to the laying on of hands, not to mention their innate superiority over 'western' medicine, it is worthwhile recalling the long, hard slog of intellectual effort which laid the ...
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To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time
Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions