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So-called ‘healthy towns’ will address child obesity and dementia, but the real killer remains at large.
Taking care of business?
Kevin Harber
Once adept at gliding through the corridors of power, new threats face the sages of the business and policy world.
More people are going to A&E.
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Hospitals in England anticipate a £2.3 billion deficit by the end of the financial year. That won’t leave much in the kitty for the proposed NHS upgrade.
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Sending mentally ill adults and children long distances for care is unacceptable and must end.
The UK government has become increasingly desperate to find any means it can to reduce its number of new migrants.
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Australian citizens make up one of the largest groups entering the UK each year for work or study. But this could change as Australians get swept up in Britain’s efforts to reduce net migration.
Age restrictions.
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There are demands for older children to get the MenB vaccine – but what is the thinking behind the current guidance?
The public are increasingly keen to trespass on corporate land.
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The UK spent much of the late 20th century voting to sell off public services – but now support is growing for a renationalisation programme.
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NHS productivity gains have been truly impressive, but are they sustainable?
NHS staff are drawn from all over the world.
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Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
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One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Poverty is part of the reason for the current A&E crisis.
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Solving the problem could save a fortune.
£33m lottery winners David and Carol Martin.
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Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.
Save our foxes: another day, another protest.
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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
Pressure point. Smarter GP surgeries can lighten the burden on the rest of the NHS.
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Britain’s local healthcare system of small time gatekeepers should become stronger networks of powerful providers.
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Fertility treatments might be designed to improve rather than save lives but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be publicly funded.
Overdoing it? Pills and thrills and bellyaches.
Jessica Lucia
When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
George Osborne.
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Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
More patients die at weekends.
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Jeremy Hunt’s solution to cutting deaths in hospitals at the weekend is to increase staff levels. But is it just a fudge?
Duty of care.
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In my final column, I look at how care in the NHS depends upon strong relationships between staff members.
Working on a Sunday.
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David Cameron promised a seven days a week GP service by 2020, but without considering the possible knock-on effects