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Women wait to see a doctor at public hospital in Budapest. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images
Women wait to see a doctor at public hospital in Budapest. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Society briefing: NHS hires 3,000 foreign doctors in a year due to lack of homegrown staff

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Aggressive recruitment sees doctors from at least 27 countries hired in 32 of the 160 hospital trusts in England

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Labour accuses coalition of tightening up NHS major incident criteria
A day at an NHS 111 call centre: ‘you do your best to give the right advice’
Pregnant smokers quit habit if paid, says report
Welsh ambulances failed to meet response time target last month
Patrick Butler: Yes, David Cameron, cutting the benefit cap tells us a lot about modern Britain
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Delays and disarray shatter lives of new disability claimants

Mary O’Hara: US-style healthcare – where being ill could cost you everything you have
Phil Friend: Why Disability Rights UK is providing training for fit-to-work assessments
Tom Clark: In social policy there’s no escaping the big generational divide
Matthew Bryant: Better use of data could help prevent future NHS crises
Plaudits but no cash for Haven that helps those with personality disorder
‘My mental health detoriated rapidly’: the real impact of benefit sanctions
Mark McGowan: the artist taxi driver with a rear-view manifesto

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Pick of the blogs

Chris Naylor, the King’s Fund: Is mental health finally becoming a political priority?
Nathan Emmerich, the Conversation: Funding expensive treatments for some on the NHS means less money for everyone else

Mental Health Cop: Criminalising children
Francesca Gains and Dave Richards, Manchester Policy Blogs: Neither unified, nor uniform – so what civil service for the twenty-first century?

Richard Exell, Touchstone: 145,000 people using food banks because of benefit delays
Rich Watts, Arbitrary Constant: Personalisation, S117 aftercare, out-of-area placements and George Clooney

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Community Care: Children’s social workers set pass or fail test to practise
Independent: Rich pensioners would keep winter fuel allowance under a Tory government
Inside Housing: Councils ‘should take primary responsibility for housing’
LocalGov.co.uk: Most deprived councils hit with largest cuts, find MPs
Public Finance: Council cuts could make services ‘unviable’, PAC warns
Telegraph: 100 Tory MPs to fight plain packaging on cigarettes
Third Sector: NCVO to spend £50,000 on ‘sector newsroom’ to encourage positive news stories

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