In airports, shopping malls, convention centers, corporate boardrooms, supermarkets, street corners, dentist offices and hospitals, you can now find practitioners making chair massage as common and acceptable as a haircut.

The initiative's goal was not to drive business to one wholesaler, but to reduce pharmaceutical costs for participating hospitals. This regional effort was driven by our membership and really showed how hospitals can work together to affect change.

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Hospitals that get sold are those that can't cover debt or get their debt-to-asset ratios way out of whack, and this hospital is likely to be in that situation for quite some time.

We understand that the Louisiana attorney general is investigating all deaths that occurred at New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes after the hurricane, and we fully support and are cooperating with him.

In the case of emergency angioplasty, for hospitals it seems that it's not just how many you do, but how used to doing them you are. The overall commitment to doing emergency angioplasties, and the protocols and staffing that come out of that commitment, appear to be key.