Nicholas Timmins

Can do better in the social mobility class

ft.com
04-Nov-2008 4 related
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor For much of this decade, the Labour government has beaten itself up over Britain’s lack of social mobility. On Monday, by contrast, it came close to a premature claim that things are...

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nicholas timmins & john o’doherty, financial times: british “care homes” threatened with closure...

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31-Oct-2008
        

Care homes could face closure By Nicholas Timmins and John O’Doherty Published: October 30 2008 02:10 The credit crunch could force care homes [in great britain] to close unless local authorities can pay bigger fees or the...

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Care homes could face closure

ft.com
30-Oct-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins and John O’Doherty The credit crunch could force care homes to close unless local authorities can pay bigger fees or the government helps the sector find capital, a leading healthcare practitioner warned on...

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Tories renew calls to review NHS project

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29-Oct-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Opposition politicians on Tuesday renewed their calls for a review of the £12.7bn ($20.3bn) National Health Service programme to create an electronic patient record amid evidence that...

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Minister urges action on sugar

ft.com
29-Oct-2008
        

Smaller sizes of soft drinks, calorie information on restaurant menus, and advertising campaigns that spend more on low sugar drinks than full sugar ones were called for yesterday by Dawn Primarolo, the public health minister....

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Private hospitals see fewer self-pay patients

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27-Oct-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Fewer patients paid out of their own pocket for private hospital treatment last year as NHS waiting times fell and the economy began to falter, Laing and Buisson, the healthcare...

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Ailing project takes turn for worse

ft.com
27-Oct-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor At the turn of the year, it looked as though the troubled NHS programme to create an electronic patient record might finally be turning a corner. Firm delivery dates for the long...

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NHS records project grinds to halt

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27-Oct-2008
        

Progress on the £12bn computer programme designed to give doctors instant access to patients' records across the country has virtually ground to a halt, raising questions about whether the world's biggest civil information...

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