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Should we pay American doctors less money?

Should we pay American doctors less money?

Supporting children of forensic in-patients: whose role is it?

A study whether children are in contact with their forensic in-patient parents and whether they are offered support regarding their parent’s mental health and offending issues.

Unemployment and health

Research into mass unemployment during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom found that people in secure employment recovered more quickly from illness. Unemployment increases rates of depression, particularly in the young—who form most of the group who have never worked and who are usually most badly hit w More...

Inconvenient truths about our health care system

1. Most physicians do not set their own fees. Medicare, Medicaid, and private health plans set these fees, which often have little to do with the costs of doing business.

MP calls for Welsh ambulance service to be \'disbanded\'

The under-performing Welsh ambulance service should be disbanded and run by the new local NHS boards, says Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones.

NHS to ban premium rate numbers

Premium rate telephone numbers will be banned for all lines used by patients and the public to contact the NHS, Health Minister Mike O’Brien has announced.

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Mental health killing prompts call for services to share information with police

Mental health services in Birmingham should review how they share information about service users with the police, an independent report into the fatal stabbing of a police officer has recommended.

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McKinsey report: politicians accused of not facing reality

The NHS Confederation has warned that the febrile political environment has “left behind all rational debate” over health service funding over the next five years.

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