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Aid deal pledges free health care
(BBC 23/09/2009)
At least 10 million people in developing nations will get access to free health care, in an aid deal launched by British PM Gordon Brown. Nepal, Malawi, Ghana, Liberia, Burundi and Sierra Leone have have said they would expand access to health services as part of the programme. The plan, unveiled at the United Nations, is backed by $5bn (£3bn) from states and the online travel industry. Mr Brown said the world must be "shamed" into stopping child deaths.
Texas lessons
(BBC 07/07/2009)
In the country that reveres the free market, competition is supposed to drive quality up and costs down. But not in healthcare - and not in McAllen, Texas. In the past 15 years, this sleepy town has reinvented itself as a boom place for modern medicine. Wherever you look there are hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. In the same period the cost of healthcare has soared faster here than anywhere else in the country.
'Huge contrasts' in devolved NHS
(BBC 29/08/2008)
Separate health policies across the UK are leading to wide differences for patients, it is claimed.
Call for health inequalities push
(BBC 24/06/2008)
Ministers urge local authorities to target problem areas after producing a detailed breakdown of public health measures.
NHS '£1.7bn surplus spending row
(BBC 06/06/2008)
A clampdown on NHS spending has resulted in a '£1.7bn surplus, Department of Health figures show.
Health and fitness: Getting a Wii bit fitter?
(Telegraph 07/04/2008)
Combining computer games with exercise is the latest way to improve health. Glenda Cooper tests the Wii Fit.
Fears over DIY health tests boom
(BBC 11/03/2008)
The public are being warned by leading health experts about the boom in tests and scans for the "worried well".
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