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			<title>Outbreak</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hundreds are dead, and thousands are thought to be affected. Is the Gulf prepared for a swine flu pandemic?]]></description>
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			<title>Westin gets 'all clear' for Legionella after death scare</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investigation by Dubai Municipality shows 'beyond doubt' hotel has no Legionnella bacteria.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai hotel clear of Legionella - initial tests</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investigation at The Westin Hotel launched after guest died of Legionniare's disease. ]]></description>
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			<title>Fewer clinics to take part in Dubai’s healthcare scheme</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Under half of the clinics and hospitals originally tipped to offer primary care services under Dubai's mandatory health insurance plan have signed up to the scheme, it has emerged.]]></description>
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			<title>Docs given two weeks to relicense</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Orders for all Dubai's doctors  to report to a hotel this month, over a two week time period to apply for relicensing, have been deemed unworkable by physicians and managers.]]></description>
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			<title>Doctors question deadline for re-licensing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai health regulaton move deemed unworkable by physicians.]]></description>
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			<title>Aetna to support new Dubai healthcare system</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Health Authority assigns company to provide health management programs and services]]></description>
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			<title>UAE's first children's hospital to be built</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai ruler orders construction of 200-bed hospital in emirate, to celebrate daughter's birthday.]]></description>
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			<title>Road map to regulation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Healthcare professionals and facilities in Dubai are currently subject to a wide range of licensing and regulatory requirements, but all that's about to change. Jo Hartley looks at what the future holds.]]></description>
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			<title>Manslaughter charge doctor has licence suspended</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai health chiefs say they are following case, reveal background checks plan.]]></description>
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			<title>Relicensing plans for all staff and facilities</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[All healthcare facilities and professionals working in Dubai will have to be relicensed as part of the overhaul of the regulatory system, MT has learnt.]]></description>
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			<title>Backing bureaucracy </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a decision set to divide the industry, Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has announced its plans to relicense all health workers - including dentists- when it takes over the regulatory reins from the Department of Health and Medical Services in January next year.  ]]></description>
			<category>Healthcare | Comment</category>
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			<title>Docs banned over sick note racket</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Health Authority revokes licences after doctors sign more than 1,000 unjustified sick notes for civil servants.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai health professionals face licensing shake-up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[New regulatory agency aims to set higher standards for healthcare in the emirate.]]></description>
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			<title>The primary problem</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The UAE is looking to unclog its overloaded emergency departments with long-term solutions.]]></description>
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			<title>Car crashes biggest child killer in UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Safety campaign launched in bid to reduce amount of children killed in road, traffic accidents.]]></description>
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			<title>Communication –easier said than done?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When judged against the mammoth task of overhauling the health sector, communication should be the easiest of Dubai Health Authority's (DHA) tasks.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Keeping it confidential</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As Dubai pulls the plug on its data reporting initiative amid fears of poor patient privacy, Medical Times examines the issues surrounding good clinical data protection.]]></description>
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			<title>Privacy fears end electronic reporting</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The health authority in Dubai has ordered an immediate halt to the reporting of electronic clinical data after Medical Times revealed widespread fears  among private sector doctors over the confidentiality of the system.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Protests force government climbdown on patient data collection</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has called a halt to a scheme requiring dentists to submit electronic clinical data following widespread concern about patient confidentiality.  ]]></description>
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			<title>DHA unveils single license agency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dentistry in Dubai is to become more standardised under a new licensing system being introduced by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), as part of its healthcare reforms.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Champions of change</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Medical Times talks to some of the doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators working on the front line of Dubai's healthcare reforms. Meet the Change Champions.    ]]></description>
			<category>Healthcare | News</category>
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			<title>Clinics to opt out of health reforms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Clinic owners opt out of primary care scheme offered under the government's new healthcare reforms.]]></description>
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			<title>Inspectors have no clear protocols</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Half of the regulatory authorities that license hospitals, clinics and healthcare professionals in Dubai have no clear procedures for inspecting facilities and handling clinical complaints, it has emerged.]]></description>
			<category>Healthcare | News</category>
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			<title>Patient confidentiality ‘at risk’ under Dubai healthcare scheme</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Dubai dentists have condemned new rules on submitting patient data to the Department of Health and Medical Services (DoHMS).]]></description>
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			<title>Wanted: Government health ‘champions’</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A total of 60 healthcare professionals from the private sector are being asked to volunteer to  act as ‘change champions', to work with staff during the implementation of the government's healthcare reforms.]]></description>
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			<title>Cards not so smart for hospitals</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Smart cards widely used as access tags or to carry a patient's medical information, can switch off critical care equipment.]]></description>
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			<title>Dose of reality</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Now the dust has settled around Dubai Health Authority's radical plans, MT gets the measure of the emirate's new-look funding system.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Half of health inspectors have no clear protocols</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Half of the regulatory authorities that license hospitals, clinics and healthcare professionals in Dubai have no clear procedures for inspecting facilities and handling clinical complaints, according to a member of the regulation team at Dubai Health Authority.]]></description>
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			<title>Time to get tough on regulation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Since the launch of Dubai’s healthcare reforms back in June scrutiny has centred on the radical overhaul of the funding system.]]></description>
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