The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

forcing many people to consider paying for private treatment -
see Health 10/06/01
* In a damning report to be published this week, the NHS will be
accused of 'institutional racism' 17/06/01 B 10 7>8
* Asylum seekers often arrive with appalling medical conditions,
so why isn't the NHS prepared to help? 24/06/01 M 47>48 1>4
Photograph
* Filthy, gloomy and chaotic: the reality of a new NHS flagship
08/07/01 B 10 1>8 Photographs
* Nurses and other medical staff in a Carlisle hospital are on the
brink of winning £35m in Europe's largest equal pay case,
claiming that the NHS discriminates against female workers
15/07/01 B 2 2>3
* The NHS is facing legal actions totalling millions of pounds
from families whose children were killed or suffered brain
damage following treatment at Bristol Royal Infirmary 15/07/01
B 3 1>4 Photograph
* The simmering debate on the soaring rate of Caesarean births
was given new impetus when a nursing leader called for a ban on
the NHS except where there is no medical alternative - see
Health 12/08/01
* Nurses quit the ailing NHS for the good life abroad - see
Medical Profession 19/08/01
* Patients facing delays for operations will be sent abroad for
treatment after a Government U-turn on calls to use spare beds in
foreign hospitals 26/08/01 B 2 5>7 Photograph
* Tony Blair was threatened with industrial action in Britain's
hospitals unless he can quash fears over private sector
involvement in public services 09/09/01 B 6 8
* Now you too can have a film star's smile… but not on the NHS
16/09/01 R 4 1>6 Photographs
* Patients could have to pay to see their GP under plans being
considered by Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats
- see Politics 23/09/01
* The genetic secrets of millions of Britons could be sold off by
the NHS to private drug companies under highly controversial
proposals outlined in leaked government documents - see
Genetics 23/09/01
* The NHS wastes £18m on poor hospital food, according to a
damning report into the state of hospital catering 23/09/01 B 6
1>3
* Observer health editor Anthony Browne, once a passionate
believer in the NHS, tells why he now feels it can never work
and it is only kept alive by wrong-headed idealism 07/10/01 B
26 1>6 Photographs
* Observer readers' responses to comments by The Observer
health editor, Anthony Browne on the National Health Service
14/10/01 B 30 1>7 Photographs
* Britain's hospitals face a winter crisis similar to that two years
ago when the NHS came close to collapse, senior doctors have
warned - see Hospitals 28/10/01
* France's medical system is recognised as superior to the NHS,
report from Paris on the lessons that Britain can learn 11/11/01
B 6 1>8 Photographs
* A private healthcare company headed by one of Tony Blair's
closest allies is making millions of pounds from acute NHS staff
shortages 25/11/01 B 1, 3 1>3 Photograph
* NHS - paying for change 02/12/01 B 19 1>7 Photographs
* More than £700m of taxpayers' money allocated for the
National Health Service was not spent last year 02/12/01 B 2
2>7
* Britain's top police officers have called for the mass
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prescription of heroin to addicts on the NHS - see Drugs & Drug
Abuse 09/12/01
* Management: We can't save the NHS just by throwing money
at it - see Work 09/12/01
* Patients are paying record amounts out of their own pockets to
buy private treatment from the National Health Service 16/12/01
B 3 1>4
* A medical scanner costing millions of pounds is being used to
treat pets at an NHS hospital that does not have enough nurses to
use it on human patients 23/12/01 B 1 1>6
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, THE
* Liverpool's Alder Hey Childrens' Hospital is braced for a
violent protest over organ scandal 28/01/01 B 5 1>8
Photographs
* The stepfather of a six-year-old girl rescued after being held
hostage by kidnappers for 23 days was flying to the Philippines
last night to be reunited with her - see International Affairs: S.E.
Asia 04/02/01
* Gunfight ends ordeal for hostages in Bangladesh - see
International Affairs: Indian Sub-Continent 18/03/01
* One of Britain's leading hospitals discriminated against
children with Down's syndrome because of the belief that
operating on them was not worthwhile given their condition
01/04/01 B 2 2>7
* Department of Health officials are trying to persuade hospitals
to plant trees where patients can see them - see Environment
15/04/01
* Britain's hospitals face a winter crisis similar to that two years
ago when the NHS came close to collapse, senior doctors have
warned 28/10/01 B 8 7>8 Photograph
* A hospital in Coventry is expected to be named as the worst in
the country for heart bypass operations 18/11/01 B 7 7>8
NATIONAL LOTTERY
* Camelot director Peter Murphy - the last of the National
Lottery's so called fat cats is to quit his job with a £500,000
payoff 08/04/01 N 1 3>5
* Figures out this week from Camelot are expected to show that
the National Lottery operator has failed to arrest the decline in
ticket sales 25/11/01 N 1 1>4
NATIONAL THEATRE
* The long wait for the board of the National Theatre to anoint
Trevor Nunn's successor is being met with boos and slow
handclaps from potential audiences 24/06/01 B 9 1>7
Photographs
NATO
* Uranium panic grips Nato as a dozen peacekeepers have died
and scores more claim to have been made ill be debris from US
ammunition in the Balkans - see Armed Forces 07/01/01
NAUGHTON, JOHN
* Columnist 28/10/01 N 4 3>7 Photograph
NAZIS
* Nazis in Britain: the UK has been a haven to 400 Nazi
murderers 02/09/01 B 15 1>6 Photographs
* What is the truth about P.G. Wodehouse's relationship with the
Nazi? Robert McCrum has unearthed startling new evidence
thanks to a meeting with one of Plum's fellow wartime... - see
Wodehouse, P.G. 18/11/01
NEIGHBORS: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH…
* See Book Reviews - Steiner, George 08/04/01