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Today's top SocietyGuardian stories
• NHS cuts expected to spark boom for private healthcare providers
• Katya's story: trafficked to the UK, sent home to torture • 11m Britons can expect to live to 100, say government statisticians
• Nick Clegg ally admits scale of spending cuts may turn Sheffield council red
• Talking about bipolar disorder
• Care homes guilty of sub-standard practices
• Stand-up to help students with new charity
• Mutuals set to take over public services
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Crunch time for the NHS
This week, the Guardian launched a daily live blog covering the most explosive domestic policy issue of the moment: the government's controversial NHS changes
Other news
• A new study by the University of Maryland has discovered that mobile phones are so important to young people that being without their iPhone or Blackberry makes them feel like they've lost a limb
• Sir Stephen Bubb, who will assess the implications of the government's NHS reforms, denies the review is a PR exercise
• The star of BBC3's So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me? asks if having Treacher Collins syndrome should prevent him from having a baby
On my radar ...
• A couple who decided to split the responsibility of looking after their child tells the Independent that the stress of shared parenting nearly drove them apart
• Tell us something we don't know: A new study claims to prove swearing can relieve pain
• Rocking against human trafficking: Pop band The Click Five has partnered with MTV Exit to produce a music video raising awareness of human trafficking in Europe and Asia. The band has also performed across Asia in an the effort to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking. The support for the campaign has gone far beyond concerts, as they also visited a shelter in Cambodia to interact with survivors of trafficking and share their message of hope.
MTV Exit has previously collaborated with Radiohead, The Killers, Placebo, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu on campaigning against human trafficking
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• Institute for Government calls for senior policy director in every Whitehall department
• The government's immigration cap is set to create major problems for the NHS, which relies on skilled non-EU staff. We look at what the impact will be, and how trusts can reduce it
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