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		<title>The duty of the Secretary of State for Health has not been restored</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumours in the press and social media that significant concessions have been made by the government ( Earl Howe )  to the Colleges on the Bill, not least around Clause 1 duty to provide are false. A real concession would &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/clause-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2173&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron 27.01.2011: This month, we published the Health and Social Care Bill, which sets out our plans to modernise the NHS &#8230; as with any big change, some myths have crept in and people are understandably nervous about what &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/lest-we-forget/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2166&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patient power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On radio 4 this morning the inimitable Simon Burns, Andrew Lansley&#8217;s right hand man, said that the coalition&#8217;s health bill would &#8220;slash bureaucracy, put doctors in charge and give patients more power&#8221;. Just as I have never met a doctor &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2135&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our McGovernment and public health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is little more than a selection of newspaper headlines, but it reveals the extent to which the Public Heath profession has been usurped by the junk food industry in the diet-related disease strategy for this country. 1. “The Department &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/mcgovernment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2122&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Health community calls on Royal Colleges to oppose Health Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE: January 12, 2012 IMMEDIATE Public Health community calls on Royal Colleges to oppose Health Bill   An influential group of public health experts has sent an urgent plea to all the medical, nursing and allied health professional Royal &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/ph/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2114&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Lansley got to hide?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE: Wednesday January 11 2012: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lord Owen steps in on Health Bill after Commons “misled” What’s Lansley got to hide?   Former Health Secretary Lord Owen has stepped up the fight to force Andrew Lansley to release &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/hide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2112&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lansley’s NHS market could wind up like social care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS BRIEFING: Health &#38; Social Care Bill Tuesday January 10 2012: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lansley’s NHS market could wind up like social care While David Cameron and ministers talk misleadingly about “integration&#8221; of services for older people, the real danger is &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/lansleys-nhs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2103&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unanswered questions about the Health Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory peer, Earl Howe  has had these since October and has not yet addressed a single one . Journalists, patients, anyone &#8230; can ask them of their MPs/adopted Lord, GP, hosptial specialist, local GP Commissioners, etc. 1. How does Earl &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2076&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What you might have missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the lack of original material. A new post on the theme of the sceptical healthcare consumer will be up soon. Meanwhile here are some of the more original, important, informative articles from the last 2-3 weeks: Seven former &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/what-you-might-have-missed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2067&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The NHS reform transition risk register</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a memorable scene in &#8216;Doctor in the House&#8217; in which the surgeon, Mr Lancelott-Spratt tells a patient who is wondering what&#8217;s wrong with him, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry my good man, you won&#8217;t understand our medical talk&#8221;  It&#8217;s rather like &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/the-nhs-reform-transition-risk-register/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2054&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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