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Abortion Row: Dorries Claims Government Concerned About Financial Rewards

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 29.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Abortion, Nadine-Dorries, Women's Rights, UK Parliament, Marie Stoppes, Frank Field, Department of Health, UK Abortion, UK Politics News

The MP at the centre of attempts to force abortion clinics to provide independent counselling has claimed the Department of Health capitulated because...

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Government Advisor: Legalise Assisted Suicide

www.telegraph.co.uk | Posted 28.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Martin Green, Dementia, Department of Health, Assisted Suicide, UK Law, UK Health, UK Politics News

Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department of Health, said patients who were too frail to take their own lives were being denied "choice" and ...

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Abortion Law Shake-Up 'Another Deliberate Obstacle' For Women

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 28.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, UK Women's Rights, Abortion Rights, UK Abortion, Department of Health, UK Politics News

Abortion rights campaigners have labelled government plans to tighten up the law on terminations as another "deliberate obstacle" for women. The ou...

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Legal Aid Cuts Will Cost NHS Tens Of Millions

www.independent.co.uk | Posted 27.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Legal Aid, Ministry of Justice, Department of Health, Legal Aid Cuts, Nhs, UK Cuts, UK Politics News

The Government's plans to slash the soaring legal aid bill threaten to cost the NHS millions and exclude many victims of medical negligence from justi...

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Abortion Rules To Be Tightened In Biggest Shake-up For A Generation

www.telegraph.co.uk | Posted 27.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Nadine Dorries, Department of Health, Abortion, Abortion UK, UK Politics News

The Department of Health is to announce plans for a new system of independent counselling for women before they finally commit to terminating a pregna...

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Man Sues Hospital Trust Over 'Do Not Resuscitate' Claims

PA | Posted 26.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Addenbrookes-Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Health, Do Not Resuscitate, Hospital Trust, Nhs, Department of Health, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A man is suing a hospital trust over his claims that medics twice put "do not resuscitate" orders on his wife's medical notes wit...

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The Next Big Political Issue?

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Unison, UK Parliament, UK Issues, Andrew Lansley, Primary Care Trusts, Department of Health, Nhs, Health and Social Care Bill, UK Politics News

The NHS faces a "lethal cocktail" of increased waiting times, budget cuts and uncertainty ahead of the Health and Social Care Bill going back to the H...

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Bowel Operation Patients 'More Likely To Need Surgery Again'

Posted 16.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Crohn's, Bowel Surgery, Surgery, Department of Health, UK Health, Nhs, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Patients who have undergone a bowel operation could be five times more likely to need further emergency surgery depending on whic...

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More Waiting For Key NHS Tests

Posted 10.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Health, David Cameron, Andrew Lansley, Department of Health, Nhs, UK NHS, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The number of people waiting more than six weeks for key NHS tests has almost quadrupled in one year, figures show. In June, t...

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'Unworkable' NHS Records System May Have Wasted Millions, MPs Say

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Commons Public Accounts Committee, Health Department, Health Committee, Andrew Lansley, Department of Health, Health Reform, Nhs Reform, Nhs, NHS IT Systems, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A plan to integrate NHS patient care records is not going to work and millions of pounds may have been wasted, according to a dam...

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Health Bosses 'Deliberately Delaying Treatments'

PA | Posted 27.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Elderly, Pct, Hospital, Andrew Lansley, Primary Care Trusts, Waiting Times, Department of Health, Sick, Healthcare, Nhs, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Health bosses are deliberately making patients wait for treatment so they will remove themselves from waiting lists by either goi...

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Government Spends £120m On Hotels

Press Association | Posted 08.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Hotels, Whitehall, UK Issues, Department of Transport, UK Parliament, Treasury, Ministry of Justice, Department of Health, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Government departments spent more than £120 million on hotels in two years, with the Ministry of Defence alone racking up a £98...

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