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VIDEO: Ratings aim 'to improve NHS care'
Patients in England will be asked if they would recommend the hospital they were treated in to friends and family, to help impro...
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VIDEO: On board London's air ambulance
Destination London's Paddy O'Connell finds out how London's Air Ambulance Service will provide critical care during the Olympics...
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Patients' ratings 'to boost care'
A new NHS patient rating system - known as the "friends and family test" - is to be introduced to help improve nursing care in E...
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Male 'contraceptive gene' found
It may be possible to develop a new form of male contraceptive after researchers in Edinburgh identified a critical gene for the...
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MSPs pass Scots booze price plan
Scotland will become the first place in the UK to introduce minimum drink pricing, after MSPs passed the plan at parliament.
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Rabies woman turned away from A&E
A woman who has been admitted to a London hospital with rabies was turned away twice from an A&E unit before she was diagnosed, ...
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Q&A: Rabies
As a case is confirmed in London, how common is it?
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'Emergency plan' to beat polio
The World Health Organization is expected launch an emergency action plan to eradicate polio after outbreaks in areas previously...