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A patient is taken to the operating theatre in the Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Protesters in London demand that Sir David Nicholson go

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Staffordshire terriers: the case for the defence after 14 year-old girl Jade Anderson was savaged to death

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Patient groups tonight attacked plans to radically scale back inspections of hospitals believed to be performing well

Patients attack plan to reduce inspections of
best hospitals

Families of those who died in the Mid Staffs scandal fear the new regime might not pick up poor care

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