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Coalition At War
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). The Coalition is at war over Nick Clegg’s decision to allow his MPs a free vote on the investigation of Jeremy Hunt. We’ve splashed on it – as...
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Dave at Leveson
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). BREAKING: Iain Duncan Smith has just been on Today to talk about our splash: “Get a job, Iain Duncan Smith tells parents on the dole” and his...
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Olympic Trouble
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt just spoke to Jim Naughtie on the Today programme about how the government is dealing with the Olympic security challenges...
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London 2012: More troops deployed for Olympics
More than 1,000 troops who had been on standby to bolster security at the Olympic Games have been deployed. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the 1,200 troops were to be used because ministers were...
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Consultations by Skype? The NHS is turning into Dr Google. We should be worried
Last year my 80-year-old grandmother arrived at her doctor’s surgery for a routine checkup only to be presented with a machine to check her own blood pressure in the waiting room. I should have...
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Stafford Hospital scandal: deaths force NHS reforms
The Sunday Telegraph understands that the report on Stafford hospital, where up to 1,200 people died needlessly in appalling conditions, will call for an overhaul of regulation to ensure poor managers...
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Stafford scandal: Jeremy Hunt calls for police inquiry into NHS
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Hunt says it is “absolutely disgraceful” that no doctors, nurses or managers have been held to account for the substandard care which led to the deaths...
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Sir David Nicholson is partly to blame for Mid Staffs, Jeremy Hunt says
Speaking in the Commons during a debate on NHS accountability, Mr Hunt, the Health Secretary, became the most senior Government figure to admit that Sir David, the NHS chief executive, was partly at...
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New criminal offence to stop NHS hospitals ‘fiddling’ figures to be introduced
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is to announce that senior NHS managers and hospital trusts will be held criminally liable if they manipulate figures on waiting times or death rates. Trusts could be...
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Queen’s speech: it’s what’s out that counts
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). BREAKING NEWS: The omission of measures aimed at problem drinking and smoking from today’s Queen’s Speech does not mean they have been...
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