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As the government introduces plans to put all NHS services out to tender, will this mean the end of free care as we know it, or the way forward in a difficult situation? Victoria Macdonald reports.
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At last year’s International Aids Conference there was talk of finding a cure for HIV – just six months later it feels as if it might actually happen, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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The Oscar Pistorius we see today, his face hidden from a media scrum as he is charged with murdering his girlfriend, is an imposter compared to the impressive man Victoria Macdonald met six years ago.
Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald interviews NHS Chief Sir David Nicholson who says he will not step aside after the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal.
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Ahead of a report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, Victoria Macdonald asks if, even now, the complaints system is fit for purpose?
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Victoria Macdonald revisits a man with dystonia whose life has been transformed by deep brain stimulation therapy that his primary care trust had initially refused to provide.
Victoria Macdonald has exclusive figures suggesting that more than half of patients with learning difficulties who die in hospital could have lived longer.
A solicitor is planning to challenge the law so that local authorities are made responsible for abuse carried out by foster parents on children in their care, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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The NHS is creaking under the strain of trying to provide high quality care according to a new report but ministers continue to insist on unprecedented savings, writes Victoria Macdonald.
A study of more than a million women has shown that those who give up smoking before the age of 40 can live ten years longer. Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports.
One of the world’s leading cancer charities has, for the first time, had to turn down requests to fund trials into potentially life-saving treatments, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Andrew Lansley’s obsession with the finer details of health policy could explain his unwanted shuffle away from the Department of Health, Victoria Macdonald writes.
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Victoria Macdonald blogs on the death of Lord Morris and his impact on disability legislation in the UK.
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Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Correspondent, Victoria Macdonald, blogs on Hillary Clinton’s pledge that the government is working towards an “Aids-free generation”.
Russia has one of the fastest growing HIV rates in the world but as Victoria MacDonald reports, its reluctance to use harm reduction programmes among addicts is fuelling the spread of the disease.