Watching the tennis not Twitter? Here’s our summary of some of the best things in health that you might have missed.
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Take your NHS acronym quiz. - When does a loan become a bailout? 91% of revenue support to trusts remains unpaid.
- Health has remained the top spending priority with the public for decades.
- Find out about the incidence of kidney cancer on different continents.
- Pressure ulcers: improvement but still variation. What next?
- The impact of war on the UK population.
- Is hip hop good for your mental health?
- What did the civil service tell Neil Kinnock ahead of 1992 General Election? Well, they didn’t like proposed FOI legislation…
From America:
- Is consolidation driving increases in cancer costs in America?
- Why are the costs of generic drugs so high in America?
- Disclosure of sensitive patient information by insurers in America.
- In the US, a veteran dies of suicide every 80 minutes.
And finally…
- Christmas has come early to Monitor, if not to the foundation trusts it regulates.
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