Personal to you. Patients are now offered a completely free choice of any hospital provider in England when they need to see a specialist for further treatment.
Preventing ill-health. To help beat heart disease, we will make sure everyone aged between 40 and 74 is offered access to free health-checks on the NHS, from 2009, helping to save thousands of lives. And by the end of 2010, an additional 500,000 women will be screened for breast cancer and two million men and women will be screened for bowel cancer and we will offer all teenage girls the opportunity to be vaccinated against cervical cancer.
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Letter to the Editor of the Swindon Advertiser 12th February
Dear Sir Mrs Johnston (letters, 12 February) who makes insinuations about Gordon Brown, has a very short memory. The Princess Alexandra RAF Hospital at Wroughton closed in 1996; one year
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