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Who uses the NHS more - the poor or the rich?

Poorer people make less use of NHS services than middle income or richer people given their respective needs for health care, a study by LSE academics and Department of Health staff has revealed today [Friday 7 November].

Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand of LSE’s Social Policy Department and Richard Murray, John Henderson and Emmi Poteliakhoff of the Department of Health’s Economics and Operational Research Unit looked into whether the NHS was equitable - that is, whether some social groups used the NHS more than others according to their need.

In their report Is the NHS equitable? they review what is meant by equitable access, what form inequity takes and what are its principal causes.

The Google Deskbar Windows search tool

Pandia discusses the new test version of a Google search tool for the Windows taskbar. Unlike the toolbar, the deskbar is integrated into the Windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen. This means that you can actually search the Web without opening your browser.

However, to look at the pages you do of course need to open Explorer anyhow..... Interesting idea though.