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30,000 NHS records lost as seven laptops stolen
Mon, Jul 21, 2008- Laptops containing the personal details of more than 30,000 NHS patients have been stolen in two separate thefts- one of which was not encrypted.

Polyclinics threaten 600 GP practices, say Tories
Fri, July 18, 2008- More than 600 GP practices are under threat because of labour Government plans for "super surgeries" despite overwhelming public opposition to the proposals, according to the Tories.

A million patients battle against polyclinics
Thu, Jul 17, 2008- More than one million patients have signed a petition protesting against plans to close hundreds of GP practices to make way for polyclinics.

Too high a price- Financial Times's review of labour's drug denials to cancer patients
Wed, Jul 16, 2008- Doctors' leaders became the latest group to demand change to labour government guidance that refuses National Health Service care to seriously ill patients who seek to prolong their lives by paying for drugs that the NHS will not provide for them. The policy is so clearly unjustifiable that legal or political pressure looks sure to force ministers to concede the point eventually. But any delay will be damaging.

Survey points to postcode lottery in health spending
Tue, Jul 14, 2008- NHS postcode lottery grows as the amount spent per head on health and social care is 17 per cent less in England than in Scotland, according to official figures.

PFI Hospitals run by HSBC pay £200 to fit wall socket
Mon, Jul 14, 2008- Britain's biggest bank, HSBC, and its investors have made almost £100m from managing National Health Service hospitals where contractors routinely charge taxpayers inflated bills for simple tasks – such as £210 to fit an electrical socket or £200 to install a computer socket

Health Direct- top up health service care is fair
Fri, Jul 11, 2008- Health Direct points out that when some complication arises after private surgery, many patients land in the NHS and are treated, not sent away. Equally NHS dental services- when one can find them, require additional payments from patients.

Doctors' anger at labour's cruelty to patients
Thu, Jul 10, 2008- The medical establishment is in revolt against Labour’s policy of denying National Health Service treatment to patients who pay privately for cancer medicines.

Polyclinics will not improve care, consultants tell BMA
Wed, Jul 9. 2008- Six out of 10 consultants say polyclinics will not improve patient care and 83 per cent fear privatisation of the NHS is detrimental to patient care and the service overall.

Doctors for Reform fight NHS order to halt cancer care
Tue, Jul 8, 2008- Doctors for Reform- a group representing nearly 1,000 doctors is preparing to mount a legal action against the health service to stop care being withdrawn from patients who want to pay for their own cancer medicines.

NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay
Mon, Jul 7, 2008- A woman dying of cancer was denied free National Health Service treatment in her final months because she had paid privately for a drug to try to prolong her life.

Relapse for NPfIT white elephant records system
Fri, Jul 4, 2008- Just when the National Health Service’s mighty and troubled £12.7bn programme to provide every patient in England with an electronic record looked as though it might be about to turn an important corner, it has skidded off the road again.

NHS at 60- NICE roadblock deprives patients as big drugs companies shift trials from UK
Thu, Jul 3, 2008- NHS at 60- leading pharmaceutical groups are cutting back on clinical research in the UK, claiming insufficient commitment by the labour government and the National Health Service to support new drug development.

NHS at 60- Labour's dentistry reforms failing dental patients
Wed, Jul 2, 2008- NHS at 60- Labour's dentistry changes designed to improve NHS dental services in England have not been successful, a report by MPs says today.

NHS at 60- MRSA superbug infections are patients biggest fear
Tue, Jul 1, 2008- NHS at 60- MRSA superbugs and fear of picking up a superbug infection is the public's main concern about NHS hospital care, a UK-wide BBC poll shows.

NHS at 60- Labour no longer trusted on National Health Service
Mon, Jun 30, 2008- NHS at 60- On the eve of the NHS's sixtieth aniversary a new poll shows that Labour is no longer the party trusted to bring in the health reforms that are needed to safeguard the NHS for future generations.

Please note- we give respect where respect is due.
Whilst we applaud and respect the NHS staff that work and deliver incredible results to patients under pressure from ridiculous amounts of red tape in adverse conditions, we deplore the armies of paper pushers that the Labour government is creating in their desperate attempt to justify the huge amounts of tax that they are wasting on the NHS.

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