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It is time to take stock of our National Health Service. In recent months its limitations have been brought sharply into focus by a number of patients who have been denied drug treatment because it is too expensive. When they have offered to pay for it themselves, they have been told that they must ...
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Patients should be able to pay for drugs which are not available on the NHS and still receive the rest of their treatment free, doctors said yesterday.
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Relatives of patients who died in hospital after contracting the clostridium difficile bacteria, are to take legal action against the health board.
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Doctors meeting in Edinburgh today attacked the 'privatisation' of the NHS and called for the service to follow Scotland's lead.
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It is likely that we will one day look back on the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service as a watershed in the provision of health care. On the eve of its annual meeting, this year in Edinburgh, the British Medical Association (BMA) has taken the public pulse and found the patient fearful ...
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Half of all patients believe they will have to pay for NHS treatment within 10 years, according to a survey carried out on behalf of doctors.
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As part of the NHS 60th anniversary celebrations, the directors of public health in Scotland would like to highlight the work of their department in protecting, promoting and improving the health of the people of Scotland.
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The real story with the NHS, I suppose, is that there are so many stories. It is a rare person who cannot mark the course of a life by bringing to mind encounters with that very British system of medical care.
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Health bosses ordered a data amnesty yesterday after an employee lost the personal information of 137 patients.
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Patients queuing for a chance to see a doctor. Staff on call 24 hours day. Freezing surgeries with nothing more than an old kettle for sterilisation. For the staff working in the health service 60 years ago, life wasn't easy.
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Deep concerns about how the NHS is handling personal information were raised last night after it emerged files relating to up to 137 Scottish patients had gone missing.
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Patients queuing for a chance to see a doctor. Staff on call 24 hours day. Freezing surgeries with nothing more than an old kettle for sterilisation. For the staff working in the health service 60 years ago, life wasn't easy.
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Private records containing medical histories of 137 patients have been lost by a health service worker, the NHS said today.
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The National Health Service's 60th anniversary this weekend brings renewed focus on how long that famous founding principle of providing a universal service free at the point of need can be sustained. Two generations on, medical advances beyond imagining in 1948 and the needs of an ageing population...
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A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of more than 20,000 patients was stolen, a health trust admitted yesterday.
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