1.   All state and federal health ministries will also be required to review their work in the light of these goals and targets.

2.   Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State, researchers have not been idle.

3.   The health ministry has launched an investigation.

4.   The health ministry says it is forced to buy more expensive medicines from the big drug manufacturers because of international patent agreements.

5.   The health ministry went to Ulla Schmidt, a deputy leader of the Social Democrat group in parliament.

6.   Capital investment is rarely a solution to complex problems, and the recurrent cost implications may be detrimental to health ministries that are already over-committed.

7.   Liberal Raffaele Costa was promoted to the health ministry.

8.   As the WHO report complains, health ministries tend to look solely at public health-care systems, ignoring the role that private provision and finance can play.

9.   At first the health ministry said it was probably the crunchy radishes beloved of Japanese, and perhaps ground beef as well.