There's no great mystery about cutting hospital death rates. All you need do is keep the really sick people away
University College London Hospitals trust is to attract patients by advertising itself as having the lowest death rates in the National Health Service. I couldn't make it...
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Defiant ECB opts for 'one-off' rate rise
The European Central Bank yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in five years. But Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB president, gave a clear signal the bank has n...
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ECB increases interest rates
The European Central Bank today brushed aside concerns over a fragile economic recovery to raise interest rates for the first time in five years.
Despite European govern...
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ECB set to anger eurozone with rise in rates
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, is preparing to risk the wrath of eurozone governments this week by raising interest rates in the 12-coun...
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MPC likely to freeze interest rates for winter
Interest rates look likely to remain at 4.5% for the foreseeable future while inflation remains above its 2% target, the Bank of England signalled yesterday. Minutes of t...
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MPC 'on hold' over interest rates
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee agreed to keep interest rates at 4.5% this month amid more uncertainty than usual about inflation, min...
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Euro falls amid rate rise doubts
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, gave the euro a fresh downward shove on the foreign exchanges yesterday when he surprised the financial m...
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John Francome rates Paddy Brennan
I went down to Philip Hobbs's before Cheltenham last year and I did some schooling with Paddy. I've watched him ride over the last two or three seasons and have been impr...
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Inflation report opens way for rate cut
The Bank of England is on course to meet its two-year inflation target of 2%, it said today, leaving the door ajar for a rate cut early next year.
In its quarterly infla...
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Interest rates stay unchanged for third month
The Bank of England today left interest rates unchanged at 4.5% for the third consecutive month amid expectations that inflation will remain above target for a while.
Th...
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