Primary care health staff and managers in Scotland want local communities must be trusted to address their own health needs.They say the current system – though allowing the setting of local priorities – is still too ‘top down’.

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More than 1,200 UK online centres have launched this week to give wider access to computers and the Internet – along with plans to launch nearly as many more again.David Blunkett has launched the centres as a way of bridging the digital divide between those with access to new technology and those without.

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