Behind the clunky name, this process is about improving services and saving lives. We should be proud of it.
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It cannot be right for informed consent requirements for a termination to be as low as for an ear syringing.
Local councils should receive more for helping to stop patients from needing hospital treatment in the first place.
The Health Secretary is emerging as one of the main architects of the Government’s programme of radical public service reform.
The sweeping breadth of reform being championed by Conservative MPs is now so commonplace that it is hardly remarked upon in the newspapers.
Without it, we will carry on with bungs to prop up services, bickering over saving local hospitals, and an ever- increasing post-code lottery for treatment.
Illegal consumption is at record levels, the Government is losing revenue – and retailers are being hurt.
Not being able to trace your biological family history can have life-and-death consequences.
Properly utilized, shale gas offers a wonderful opportunity for such as countries China to tackle air pollution while still allowing energy growth.
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Consider the contrast between those who cast themselves as victims – the David Nicholsons and Andy Burnhams – and those who are truly vulnerable.
While an unhealthy lifestyle could mean an early death, it probably won’t be that early. It’s not a case of being old or fat, but rather old and fat.
Social care needs have changed – and primary care must lead the response
Too many patients get a swift response, but then have to wait to get to hospital.