Stories by Wendy Moore
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Features
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The heart of the matter
The government’s new public health white paper sets tough new targets to prevent coronary disease and other major killers – but does it address the income inequality at the heart of the health divide? Wendy Moore reports
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Radical surgery
In failing to create an open market in healthcare, the NHS reforms have been a frustration to the Right - but the think tanks still have ideas for radical reform. Wendy Moore investigates
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What’s left of Labour’s NHS?
Is Labour’s health policy the work of wild-eyed radicals or just another example of New Labour Blurrism? And can Labour win over the activists as well as the administrators? Wendy Moore finds out
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Making it up as they go along?
Do the government’s plans to expand GP fundholding mark the start of a new, consumer-friendly NHS — or the abandonment of progress towards accountability and equity in health care? Wendy Moore canvasses opinion
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News
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Patient expertise may be lost to NHS
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‘Patient choice’ could drain NHS of cash
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News in brief 1
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New challenge to ‘oppressive’ mental health care
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Lords vote delays bed blocking bill for a year
Campaigners have welcomed a significant victory in the vote by the House of Lords to delay the government’s bed blocking bill by a year but are still pressing to throw the reform out altogether.
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Women fear cancer – yet heart disease kills more
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UN agencies risk being undermined by corporate interests, warn activists
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News in brief 2
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In brief
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Internal market harmed patients, new study finds
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Medact counts the human cost of war
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Milburn’s volley aims to ‘up the game’ on public health
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Opposition mounts to ‘bed blockers’ bill
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UK does too little to safeguard asylum seekers’ health
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Health research serves profit rather than the public
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Some hospitals have five times more doctors per patient than others
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Public health must grow greener
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£5 an hour victory for low paid hospital staff
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Soham murders derail mental health protest
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In brief
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Men unlikely to draw on ‘social capital’ for health
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Nursing and social care now free in Scotland
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PFI critic ‘singled out’ for attack by Commons report
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Labour plans ‘worse than Mrs Thatcher’
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Suicide prevention now a ‘high priority’ for Scotland
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NHS policy U-turn is ‘costly experiment’
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In brief
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A&E waiting times prompt national debate on beds
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Smoke-free world cup – except in Malaysia
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NHS faces new financial crisis
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MPs split on role of the private sector
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Vaccine expert takes a jab at Tory MMR policy
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New hopes of a narrowing health gap
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In brief
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Drugs dominate response to mental health problems
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Rise in sex-related infections causes concern
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NHS ‘underfunded by £267bn’ since 1972 admits government report
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New figures show progress on poverty and social exclusion
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Labour’s BUPA deal ‘depressing’
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MP calls for inquiry into medical racism
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In brief
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Bill abolishing CHCs faces stormy ride
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Still a long way to go on child poverty
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Public health manifesto calls for radical action to fight poverty
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