Sudanese battle price hikes as economic crisis bites

What I'm really thinking: the smoker

"When people talk about heroin addicts who will do anything to get a solution, I do not feel any different"

I loved nothing more than to stay out of a dinner in a restaurant or put the world to rights of other smokers and missing half the meal. But now I'm in my mid-40s, suddenly seems to be standing on my own property. On the outside looking in, wondering when - if - I will never fight against this addiction

Friends

wonder how smoke and lie. "Three a day, tops," I said, thinking that the treble and a little more. "You might as well give up," they say. Or, more observantly, "But you had the courage of his day as we talked," I laugh, say it is because I am very happy to be away from motherhood, work, responsibility. "I let my hair. Normally not smoke so much."

When it comes to heroin addicts who will do anything to get a solution, I do not feel any different. I'm addicted to sitting dirty lie like them. I'm addicted to reject the help of my daughter a bedtime story, saying he had work to finish so he can illuminate the garden. In the snow. Who missed the last train for a last cigarette before a three-hour trip - cold turkey unthinkable for someone like me. Put me somewhere I can not smoke - a film, play, air transport - and my mood is getting worse by the minute. I bite my family, refusing to say what is really surly away from me.

know I am on borrowed time. Smoke a lot and get away with it. There will be a return on investment, and my daughter will pay the price.

. Tell us what you think. Email Mind@guardian.co.uk

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The real reason for the firing of the New York Times chief executive

The Guardian reported in December that the CEO of the New York Times, Janet Robinson would resign.

had no clue what was going on. However, if a New York magazine is to be believed, it seems that the story of his departure is very interesting.

According to the author, Joe Hagan, is a mixture of the struggle, the internal family rivalries and personality conflicts between Robinson and Girlfriend editor of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Claudia Gonzalez.

According to Hagan, the absolute Robinson had received a sort of platonic marriage with Sulzberger.

This relationship has deteriorated as Sulzberger became increasingly concerned about the strong character Gonzalez was apparently not a fan of Robinson.

However, Robinson shot - with a reputation $ 24m (£ 15.3m) pay-off -. It was as simple as it may sound clash

Hagan explains that the general issue concerns the newspaper industry and its devastating impact on the comfort of the family economic Sulzberger.

• drop in advertising revenue, falling stock prices and the absence of three years of dividend Robinson eroded job security.
fact, the absence of a dividend created a feeling of discontent among Ochs-Sulzberger family two years ago also advice from a company that specializes in conflicts within families rich.

Robinson has been seen

on digital strategy of the company - or lack thereof -. That underlay its output

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They will never have it so good - a bleak future for our youth

The "naive" view of the baby boom generation have cost our young people in their future and a stable home

until about 2000, homeownership has increased in the United Kingdom. Since then, growth has been leasing, management and fewer families can afford a home of their own.

Today

owns the proportion is decreasing. Many commentators have noted in antiquity for the first time buyer. Those who can not buy more gray, maybe buying your first home at 40 instead of 20 years.

Most analysts responsible for this phenomenon on the rise in inflation in housing prices compared to a more general increase in the cost of living. But now it has become clear that the decline of the property is part of a general decline in the ability, which is surprising when you consider the broader social context.

today young people leave university with thousands of pounds of debt. The increased rates double or triple the impact made today, with more punishing interest rates as well. Even those who do not have a degree accumulating debt that can never pay.

Getting a job is difficult to abandon school and university, especially in my generation thought it might be fun to continue working until you are 70 or older, while the constant "job for life" with a decent pension at the end is over for good as -. successive decisions of the government are on the pension system sacrificed final Once young people get a job that is almost impossible to save a deposit, higher incomes mean debt under repair is more difficult for them. Lenders want 20% of deposits and interest-only mortgage is disappearing.

Fewer young people are entitled to social housing and get stuck in the private rented sector. Their housing costs will increase each year with no assets at the end of show. As a result, more and more young people will live in shared accommodation more. Call me naive, but I always believed that things can only get better, so that progress is what has happened over time. The lives of my parents was a big improvement in their grandparents and mine on hers. scientific advances, more freedom, less poverty and more opportunities would be - I think - to guarantee that each generation would do better than its predecessors. I took the March before humanity for granted.

• But now, the evidence shows that we are going backwards.

Kate Davies is CEO

Notting Hill Housing

UK's ambitious South Sudan aid plan for girls' education takes a hit

Britain adopted a hard line in response to support South Sudan shutdown of oil production, but the United States presses ahead with development work and humanitarian aid

economic crisis in South Sudan has reached ambitious £ 52 million in the United Kingdom for the education of girls, one of the main priorities for program development in Britain new state of the world.

South Sudan stops oil production in January in a dispute with Sudan over fees for oil through pipelines in Sudan. Measure, the United Kingdom considers that his camp has denied South Sudan 98% of their income, which may divert Department (DFID) International Development Assistance Program 360 billion euros in aid emergency humanitarian rather than long-term development. In a parliamentary report said recently, the implementation of the DFID program already at risk before it has begun.

long-term programs for South Sudan - one of the main beneficiaries of British bilateral aid - are in limbo because no one knows how much money is left in the government coffers . Some say that the country will run out of money in August, raising the possibility that simply prints cash - with the risk of hyperinflation, as in Zimbabwe. The food prices are increasing rapidly, and long lines of cars and motorcycles outside gas stations are a common sight in Juba.

until the new budget in July, the government announced an austerity plan in February, which halved the operating costs and reduce funding for 10 countries by 10%. Education, Southern Sudan has reduced the budget to 4% of GDP by about 7% and stopped building schools. It has reduced wages through the Ministry of Education of 10% arrested teacher training and recruitment of new teachers frozen.

Consequently, DFID has suspended plans to build training centers for teachers. The plan was to build 10 centers in four states to train 2,000 teachers per year into four periods of six weeks. But all that remains on the drawing board.

This is a blow to a country that needs to double the number of teachers and 60,000 to have a chance of achieving the Millennium development of universal primary education by 2015. The report qualified teacher for children is 1:117.

girls' education "is particularly serious. Only seven women for every 10 primary school children, five girls for every 10 boys at the secondary level. Only 9% of girls who enroll in the first years complete primary school, and only 2% make it through high school.

• working with partners, DFID has big plans for the education of girls, the fight against barriers not only economic but also social and cultural factors that prevent girls from going to school. DFID will support girls and 50,000 150,000 primary school to high school. At present, there are only 30,000 girls in upper primary school, aged between eight and 11 years.

According to UNICEF, 64% (about 1 million) of children aged six to 11 are not in school. A population of over 8 million, nearly 3 million are between five and 18 years.

cultural barriers to girls' education are great. As in many African countries, women and girls in Southern Sudan are responsible for most household chores such as collecting water. The average water collection can be up to eight hours per day in areas with little water and sanitation. Even when girls go to school, can be abused by teachers. Last year, in the town of Rumbek, Lakes State, protests erupted after some teachers were arrested for abusing young girls. The state has declined and released teachers on strike after their colleagues.

And when fees must be paid to the school - and parents must decide to pay for their son or daughters to participate - boys outweigh
But while the UK pulling their educational plans, the United States decided to go ahead with its construction of training institutes for teachers. This reflects an interesting division in the center of the current economic crisis.

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Coentrão slated after Real defeat

. Left guilty last winner Bayern Munich

Jose Mourinho Real Madrid also criticized the tactics

Real Madrid 2-1 Champions League defeat against Bayern Munich Tuesday raised questions about the tactics of Jose Mourinho and drawn sharp criticism from the back Fabio Coentrao left unhappy.

after falling to a 17-minute strike Franck Ribery in the semi-final, first in Germany, Real fought back to 1-1 when Mesut Ozil tapping into what could be a priceless goal away eight minutes after the rupture of the Allianz Arena.

However, instead of going for the kill, Mourinho was ready to settle for a draw and Ozil and Angel Di Maria, Marcelo replacing defender and midfielder Esteban Granero.

Brazilian Kaka, the world player of the year and the natural replacement for the German Ozil if he was tired, he remained on the bench.

could walk, a slight advantage for the second leg next week in Madrid, but for another terrible performance Coentrão Portuguese compatriot Mourinho, who the real wage of ? 30 million Benfica.

Coentrão was unable to cope with the difficult Ribery and Arjen Robben and Philipp Lahm Bayern before allowed to pass and cross the 90th minute winner Mario Gomez Champions League Real Madrid seal first defeat this season.

Although

received unequivocal support of his coach and teammates, the last sub-par performance. 24-year-old was refused in the Spanish sports press and was ridiculed on Twitter
• Marca said it was Coentrão, who was recently criticized after being photographed smoking in public, who conceded a foul that allowed Moscow to score a goal at the end of their last- February 16 in the first inning.

"defender of ? 30 million has saved the best for the end [against Bayern] when it is closed late Lahm, who managed to pass under no pressure to Mario Gomez to score," writes newspaper sarcastically.

also speculated whether the Benfica fans had erected a statue of president of his club to convince real pay that much for the Portuguese international, who had an unsuccessful loan period at Real Zaragoza in 2008-09 .
peers Coentrao has preferred to focus on the positive aspects of Tuesday's game, as they prepared for Saturday

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Dalglish blames success for defeat

. "Playing Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday takes its toll

. Liverpool manager Luis Suarez goal was rejected unhappy

Kenny Dalglish

suggested that his team is paying the price of success that Wigan lost to Liverpool at Anfield for the first time in its history, the director explains that progress in both domestic cups caused the fatigue among its workforce.

Dalglish said the problem was compounded by the television programs stating that the Carling Cup winners had to play three games in six days, from the FA Cup quarter-final victory over Stoke Sunday League defeats and followed by Queens Park Rangers and Wigan now.

• "We looked a little tired," said Dalglish after 2-1 loss. "We gave the ball away a large number of vital positions and it is not because Players can not play due to fatigue. You play Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday, which will wreak havoc. We did not have enough players at our disposal to give adequate rest. This is the problem since the club of television programs and the fact that we did well in two cups. "

Dalglish also complained that the turning point of the match was referee Lee Mason's refusal to award a second goal Luis Suarez, when the parties were tied at 1-1, the decision Official statement that the Uruguayan had the ball in the net with his arm. "There was no rhyme or reason for the second goal would have pointed out, was not the handball," said Dalglish, who thought the ball was out of the front shoulder.

"I saw a replay quickly and was clear handball," said Roberto Martinez, who praised the performance of the referee and, in particular, the way he handled Suarez. "We all know that Suarez is an artist throws and get good situations for his team, but the referee was very strong. "

Wigan manager also praised the character of his own team, and he said: "I do not think we played as well as we played in the last five games, but I'm satisfied with how we managed after recognizing the target. Since then, the local team often takes over, but I'm very proud of the players controlled the situation, kept the ball and took the sting out of the game in a mature before moving forward again. Liverpool saw not mastered at all and it is the hard work of the players put in. "

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Two soldiers shot dead in France

Two paratroopers killed and another seriously wounded by a gunman on a motorcycle in the second attack in a week

Researchers fear that the murderer target motorcycle after two French soldiers were killed and a third seriously injured in a "ride-by" shooting the second attack in less than a week.

The three members of the Parachute Regiment were killed in a vibrant city center on Thursday afternoon. Two were killed instantly, while the third was reported in critical condition in hospital.

The attack followed the killing last week of an officer in another regiment of paratroopers, even shot by a gunman motorcycle.

soldiers, all in their 20s and in uniform, standing next to an ATM at Montauban, in the southwest of France. Police cordoned off the city center before the survey, said it was unclear if the three were to withdraw money, or had left a store or restaurant and went through when they were slaughtered rifle shortly after 14:00, heard by people nearby. The murderer, who was wearing a helmet, then left on a motorcycle, more than a dozen casings were found at the scene

• men served in the Parachute Regiment 17, which has periods of service in Afghanistan, Lebanon and the former Yugoslavia, and is based on a barracks near the attack.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to France, said he had sent Defence Minister Gerard Longuet to Montauban to direct operations, but could not say more: "The circumstances are not clear at this time I can not give any explanation. "Longuet said he was confident that the investigators do their best to ensure that the shooter has been brought to justice, adding that his thoughts were with the" families of the dead and his regiment. "

Brigitte Barèges

, mayor of Montauban, said he was "shocked and outraged" by "a murder which was presented as a true summary execution." The regiment had "paid and, unfortunately, the cost of the war in Afghanistan," he said after losing four soldiers.

Sunday on the outskirts of Toulouse, 46 km south of Montauban, a member of another regiment rest was shot in the head at close range by a gunman on a motorcycle. Ziaten Ibn Imad, 30, marshall in the first parachute regiment, stood with his 650cc Suzuki motorcycle outside a gym and wearing a helmet at the time, he was in uniform
Detectives say Ziaten announced his bike to the sale and received a call from what appeared to be an interested buyer minutes before being killed. Ziaten commander said he had served in the French army in Ivory Coast, Chad and Gabon.

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Greece on the breadline: food for less in Patras

A resident Scottish port city in southwestern Greek written with a new movement of food there cheap

readers continue to send me their stories. I have had several inquiries to appropriate charities that people give special attention to children, and asked for help via Twitter for it. If anyone has any ideas, please contact us.

Meanwhile, Hilary Diamantopoulou, optometrist Scottish doctor married to a retired Greek, who lived and worked in the port of Patras southwest for over 30 years, wrote stories of movement cheap food there:

Just a note to say that the situation here is what I described in Athens, but on a smaller scale. Participation shops daily in community kitchens (mainly church-term) and food banks retirees increases dumpster diving. We also have our own illegal immigration problem due to the fact that Patras is the main port for traffic to Italy. Initially it was Kurdish, but it is now much more varied.

Firstly, soup kitchens were set up for immigrants, but now the problem is with the Greeks who are unable to feed themselves and their families due to the economic crisis situations.

The new factor here is that the movement began in our region offer flour, pasta, potatoes, wine, honey and oil Olive - at reduced prices directly from farmers / producers - online. It seems to be linked to, or at least with the blessing of the municipality. Orders online collection points are the two main squares in the city.

Hilary sent a link to the project. Ergasianews.blogspot.com

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BP's steady recovery could be undone by Deepwater court case

solid results improve confidence if, of course, BP may escape prosecution by the Gulf oil spill

Bob Dudley has tried throughout his brief tenure at the head of BP, some flashy - but ultimately unsuccessful -. Measures to attract the attention of investors and restore the company is still loose during the action

More news daily rebound Tuesday profitability and the decision to increase the dividend by 14% over a number of positive statistics on the number of wells drilled and the area cultivated with success guaranteed could be a better way to reach your goal.

Dudley tried to forge an alliance with Rosneft ostentation last year, he came to regret that he had not counted on the opposition of his former opponents - I mean friends - for TNK -BP in Russia. Then a huge contract to raise more than $ 7 billion (£ 4.4 billion) through the sale of the participation of BP in Pan American Energy of Argentina collapsed.

• BP now seems resigned to a long slog through improved harvest confidence milestones such as fixed platforms about eight working in the Gulf of Mexico - scene of a moratorium on drilling after Macondo spill that made the financial and reputational damage to the company in spring 2010.
But Dudley still faces what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all: the case of New Orleans cut with the Department of Justice, which begins Feb. 27

charges of gross negligence against BP for the Deepwater Horizon accident has not yet been ruled out, although it seems rather unlikely on the evidence that has emerged to present.

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India plans to drive railways out of the Raj era into high-speed future

Revision

could mean the end of elephants on line, passengers on the roof and the average speed of 45 mph - but huge investment required

crowds, chaos and cows on the platform will soon be history. Indian Railways should be given their most radical reform since the end of British Raj, with the introduction of high speed trains on main lines - if an ambitious plan can become a reality

A bill was tabled in Parliament in order to finance the studies are offered six "high-speed rail corridors" have been identified. Instead of drawing in dirty trains delayed by fog, elephants online or breakdowns, Indians and tourists can expect quite a different experience.

Japanese consultants were in Delhi, capital of India, which shows that the bullet train traveling at speeds up to 200 mph. "We plan for the future. Growth rate of the economy means high-speed rail will be a requirement. Maybe not immediately, but certainly within a few years," said the spokesman of the Indian Roads iron, Anil Saxena.

line

most ambitious term linking the eastern city port of Calcutta to Delhi. Trains stop in Varanasi, the holy city of the Ganges and Agra, home to the Taj Mahal. Currently, the journey takes 36 hours. A British company has been to examine the first part of the road, east of the capital of Bihar.

route linking the cities of the south and west, as Pune, Ahmedabad and Bombay.

foreign experts are not convinced that India needed or you can build high-speed trains. In France, a mile of TGV cost £ 15m, and much more through the hills. In Britain the HS2 project has been set at £ 33 billion bullet train in California is estimated at £ 70 billion and has more than 20 years to complete.

total investment in India, even if the land is cheaper, and it would be great, experts say. The new stations will be built in large cities and there are major security problems.

• "The distances are huge, there are cities to pass through or round and very difficult terrain. And people are not accustomed to that kind of speed. Could you deal with this kind technology? "said Christian Wolmar, a British transport writer.
• Aa Indian trains today
45 mph means that, despite an improvement of 35 mph for two decades, he always puts them among the slowest in the world. Wolmar suggested implementing more modest measures to reduce travel time on the existing road.

Then there are the general questions that ruins thousands of infrastructure projects - roads desperately need, power plants, canals, sewage plants and bridges - through India. Local experts say that this skepticism is unwarranted.

"There is definitely a need for this type of initiative and [high speed rail] is theoretically possible here," said Dr. Sridhar Varadharajan, Bangalore specialist, who noted that success in Metro Indian capital - a project that many said it was impossible to implement - and the network of high-speed railway construction in China, regional rival India. "There is no reason why we can not do what China has done," he said.

There were security concerns over high-speed China after train crash in July killed more than 40 people. But the practical problems are not new in the Indian Ministry of Railway. Its 1.25 million employees overcome all the usual risks of everyday life india - containers aggressive monkeys by natural disasters and Maoist guerrillas - to carry 25 million people to their destinations every day

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Japan, India shares gain in holiday-thin Asia, U.S. hopes help (Reuters)

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Doctors diagnose diseases as if recognizing objects

brain scans showed that the diagnostic accuracy of X-rays involves the same mechanisms as recognizing everday objects

In medical practice, doctors often make a diagnosis of a disease within minutes of contact with a patient, and sometimes even before the patient reported symptoms. When, for example, a physician encounters a patient with jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes), a diagnosis related to liver disease or dysfunction comes to mind immediately and automatically.

Diagnosis of the disease is a specialized type of problem solving, which are believed to require little or no analytical reasoning. Instead, it is probably based on the fast retrieval of similar cases from memory and, as such, was compared to the pattern recognition. A new study provides evidence that medical diagnoses involve the same brain systems to recognize and name everyday objects.

Marcio Melo of the University of São Paulo and his colleagues, in collaboration with Karl Friston and Cathy Price of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London, recruited 25 Brazilian radiologists and scanned the brain when they saw a series of 60 different chest X-rays. 20 images contained clearly identifiable symptoms and diseases easily diagnosed as pneumonia, and 20 had pictures of an animal embedded in radiography. The remaining images received a letter embedded in them, and served as controls.

Previous work has shown that the X-ray scanning radiologists in detail and identify a set abnormalities in about one second to see the first image. They do this by changing the "to find" strategy in which the global properties of the image are evaluated. This second strategy is considered similar to the process by which one recognizes the face and improves with the Experience: the most experienced radiologist takes less time to devote to the analysis of an image, which can contribute to their experience.

This series of experiments were designed to prevent participants from the X-ray analysis in detail, because it is likely to have influenced the results. Animals and letters have been incorporated in radiographic images so that all target stimuli are presented in the same context. Each image was presented for 3.5 seconds, during which the participants had to locate the target, and then recognize the name. Confirming previous studies, results showed that participants can identify abnormalities on radiographs to reach an accurate diagnosis quickly. On average, it took only 1.3 seconds after seeing the images, suggesting that the process is actually performed automatically.

Basically, three types of tests produced the same pattern of activation in a distributed set of brain regions, but at different levels (above). Diagnosis of disease caused a higher level of activation of the nomenclature of the animals, which in turn produces an activation level of the names of the letters. The activation of the prefrontal cortex was greater during diagnostic testing, which involves more associations between words and their meanings, while the visual cortex was more active during animal studies of naming.

This suggests that the brain mechanisms that underlie the immediate recognition of medical radiographic abnormalities are very similar to those underlying the appointment of everyday objects. The increased activation of prefrontal cortical areas shows that the recognition of symptoms is more demanding than naming objects, however, and this is probably because the diagnosis involves the selection of a more appropriate name than the appointment of an animal.

The researchers note that the X-rays used in the study showed relatively common anomalies with which most radiologists are familiar, and that the hypothesis should be tested in other medical specialties that have much expanded clinical visual symptoms such as dermatology. Diagnoses that are less dependent on visual cues, you can use different mechanisms.

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Philippines floods declared a national calamity as death toll rises

President made this statement as coffins shipped to help the authorities to control the number of deaths

more than 400 coffins were sent to both cities affected by the floods in the southern Philippines as the death toll neared 1000 and President Benigno Aquino declared a state of national disaster.

The last count

Figure 957 dead and 49 missing and is expected to increase as additional bodies are recovered from the sea and mud in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro

A handful of morgues

are overwhelmed and running out of coffins and formaldehyde for embalming. Aid workers appealed for bottled water, blankets, tents and clothes for many of 45,000 in crowded evacuation centers.

Naval Personnel

Manila loaded a ship with 437 white wooden coffins to help local authorities manage the number of deaths. Also on the way were containers with thousands of water bottles.

Most of the victims were women and children who drowned in the Friday night, when floods caused by a tropical storm have increased in homes while people slept.

Dozens of grieving relatives

at least 38 victims wept openly during funeral rites in the cemetery in Iligan. Many wore masks to try to block the smell of decomposing bodies.

"We have to give the dead a decent burial," said Mayor Lawrence Cruz. He said authorities were using part of the cemetery room to build tombs.

• A Briton was the first foreigner killed in the flooding, according to the British Embassy in Manila. He did not give details.

Aquino, on a visit to Cagayan de Oro on Tuesday, said the declaration of a national calamity will help local authorities have quick access to recovery funds and keep prices of products stable base.

"Our national government will do its best to prevent a repeat of this tragedy," Aquino told residents.
He said there will be an assessment of why so many people died, if there was ample warning that a storm travels through the region, and why people who living along riverbanks and close to the coast had not been moved to safety.

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Oil hovers above $96 amid Europe debt worries (AP)

Oil hovers above $96 amid light holiday volume (AP)

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Waiting list rise prompts government U-turn

. Strong increase in the number of untreated patients NHS

. Figures undermine Cameron's commitment timeouts

. Health secretary forced to give back to the objectives NHS

. The NHS waiting times: Tell us your stories

The government has staged a U-turn and pledged to tackle the growing problem of NHS waiting lists by broadening the objectives of the NHS, the coalition had previously criticized as unnecessary and unproven.

other evidence that an increasing number of patients are treated within 18 weeks guaranteed by the constitution forced NHS Andrew Lansley, the Health Minister announced new measures to halt the increase.

For months Lansley insisted that the waiting time has remained "low and stable" despite periodic publication of official NHS data show that more patients had to wait more that 'they should for treatment as well as access to A & E within four hours and diagnostic tests such as MRI and X-rays in six weeks.

measurement shows that the promises of David Cameron in June to maintain low latency, which was part of a series of five "personal commitments," said the coalition tried to rebuild his tarnished reputation in the NHS has not been reached. "The waiting really matter," he said in a speech at the "pause" to advance the health bill controversial and social services.

Upon NHS figures executives and experts in health policy warned privately that Cameron had created a "hostage to fortune" to make this promise, they said that they could not be delivered at a time in the NHS is facing a financial crunch taking a unit of 20 billion euros in savings, loss of jobs and increased demand for their services.

Lansley has announced new measures to end the situation where patients who are not treated within 18 weeks can often find waiting a year or more likely because hospitals have no interest to be treated, "forgotten patients", as he called them.

After criticizing the use of the previous Labour government intended to force the NHS to treat patients more quickly, Lansley, announced Thursday a new NHS waiting time targets, designed to prevent the rotting untreated patients after 18 weeks, would come into force next year.

Labour said the new policy on NHS waiting time was "an admission of failure" and proof that the Secretary of Health has refused to heed the warnings of relaxation in white waiting time inevitably pain, discomfort and frustration for patients.
• "This action is a clear admission of failure by the health secretary. During his tenure, the waiting lists for NHS patients spiral upwards, with a 48% increase in patients waiting more than 18 weeks, "said Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary.
• "One of his first acts was to relax Labour Standards timeout. We have warned him that patients pay the price, and that's exactly what happened.

"is due to lack Andrew Lansley to get a grip on waiting times may be required to implement these new rules today. Flooder instead focus on setting time back provided at its historic low of Labour inherited, "said Burnham.

The deterioration of the situation could worsen if the ministers went ahead with another political controversy Lansley to abolish the limit on the amount of income that semi-independent foundation hospitals Trustee may be treating private patients. Critics fear that this will lead to rich user priority and be ordinary NHS must wait longer for staff rooms and operation is used to treat paying patients.

"Unfortunately, things will get worse if it succeeds in abolishing the cap on the amount of work private hospitals can do the job. This brings us directly to the good old days of Tory NHS, where patients are forced to choose to wait longer or pay privately, "said Burnham.

The latest official data showed that 17,873 people are waiting for one more month until May 2010, the month, the coalition released soon and NHS waiting time targets.

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