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		<title>The last thing the NHS needs right now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent presentation by public health consultant David McCoy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abetternhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9020292&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demonstrate outside Parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Better NHS readers,  Hackney Keep Our NHS Public have been working to secure a demo outside Parliament to register public opposition to the Bill. We now have permission for this! Please help us by attending and promoting this weekday &#8230; <a href="http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/demo/">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=2178&amp;subd=abetternhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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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