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"While we are striving for perfection in the way we deliver care, we know we fall short of that mark -- but patients can help us get better, " says Nancy Foster, AHA's vice president for quality and patient safety policy.
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While the new commission may end up helping the private sector by raising public confidence in its quality, Justin Keen, a health policy analyst at the King's Fund, worries that having separate quality controls for public and private medicine reinforces rather than reduces the two-tier nature of British health care.
ECONOMIST: Health
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An honest assessment of soil quality would put further pressure on food supplies, and challenge the government's policy of food self-sufficiency, which it believes is a strategic imperative.
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