A decade and millions of pounds later, British healthcare languishes
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The Christian Science Monitor - On the eve of his election victory in 1997, Tony Blair famously declared that Britain had 24 hours to save its derelict National Health Service.
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A controversial health centre where NHS patients will be treated by a private company is officially opened.
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The technological marvels of medicine mean that the insured majority are being treated for ailments that went untreated or undetected years ago.
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The National Health Service (NHS) is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded medicines, using up funds that could be spent on other needs, the competition watchdog has said.
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The Office of Fair Trading says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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The NHS faces a fragile future because of a growing reliance on agencies and foreign workers, nurses&#39; leaders warned yesterday.
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Care offered to people with long-term conditions such as asthma and diabetes to be overhauled.
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A health trust says a Â£500,000 funding gap to staff a cardiac unit could lead to cuts in services.
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Acute coughs cost the UK economy almost Â£1 billion every year, experts warn.
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An OFT probe finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Doctors and patients groups have criticised plans to set up health centres known as "polyclinics" across England.
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The future of specialist medicine is at risk due to the way university research is funded, a doctors' leader says.
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Private health insurers are being invited to take over the purchasing of care for NHS patients, putting in place one of the final pieces of the government's drive to shift to a fully mixed economy of NHS care.
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NHS healthcare for cancer patients is not good enough, a think-tank of almost 1,000 doctors says.
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At least Â£100m from is being spent unnecessarily by the NHS each year on indigestion drugs, doctors say.
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Eleven years after the Clintons introduced their super-complex plan to revamp health care, the problems of rising costs and increasing numbers of uninsured have only gotten worse.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.