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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Hospital wards and operating theatres are being cut and redundancies made as the NHS battles with a Â£500m deficit, a survey says.
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The NHS now spends too much on cataract surgery, eye doctors claim.
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The OFT says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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The NHS cost of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade, the BBC learns.
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Violence and abuse against staff costs the NHS more than Â£100m a year, according to a BBC investigation.
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A decade ago, analysts were calling Britain's Conservative Party the dominant force in 20th-century British politics.
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Changes to the way hospitals are paid  are being scaled back amid concerns over "financial volatility".
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A big reason for the high cost of health insurance is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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Despite marked improvements in NHS finances nearly one-third of NHS bodies are still in the red, a report finds.
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The NHS looks like it has underspent by nearly Â£500m last year after making cuts amid pressure to avoid a deficit, early data shows.
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In August 2000, three years after its founding, Hallmark Health System was in shaky financial health. Its bonded indebtedness was $106 million, and there was talk about how much longer the company could last.
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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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The struggles of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta are emblematic of the crippling effect Americaâs health care crisis has had on public hospitals around the nation.
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The amount the NHS spends on medicines will be cut by Â£1.8 billion over the next five years after drugs companies agreed to reduce their prices.
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The soaring cost of private finance schemes will become an "albatross" around the NHS's neck, a study says.
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Rural areas are missing out on healthcare, according to a report by the British Medical Association.