Minister acts as hospitals buckle
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Health minister Brian Gibbons plans to visit hospitals to see emergency admissions problems for himself.
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A plea by doctors' leaders to give greater protection to family GPs will be acted upon, the health minister promises.
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Russom Ghebrai walks the corridors of Greater Southeast Community Hospital with quiet authority. Seventy hours a week, he dons the white coat of his profession and attends to patients on the fringes of medical care.
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Gordon Brown appoints surgeon Professor Sir Ara Darzi as a minister charged with improving patient care.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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First Minister Rhodri Morgan is not expected to leave hospital for a few days after undergoing minor heart surgery.
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.
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Ministers have made tackling hospital infections and hitting waiting targets as key priorities for the coming year.
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A government advisor says some English hospitals should be stripped of doctor-led maternity care.
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The health secretary is expected to announce a reversal of decisions to centralise hospital services.
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Hospitals may be closed when patients are given choice, the health secretary says.
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The new PM is masterminding a drive to slash the rates of MRSA and other hospital infections.
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had a rude shock at a Healthy Lifestyles event on Sunday. Shortly after encouraging a Gugulethu crowd to eat healthily and to do more exercise to avoid heart disease
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The NHS is facing a blitz of inspections as a health watchdog uses new powers to crackdown on infections.
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Ministers are to confirm the NHS has balanced its books despite many hospitals still struggling with debt.
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TORONTO (CP) - Health Minister George Smitherman dismissed as &quot;ridiculous&quot; Tuesday opposition claims that he has been intimidating hospital administrators into keeping mum about potential cuts.
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Coping at a hospital when the doctor is in, but the interpreter is out.