Monthly Archive: February 2015
The Government has been heavily criticised after a series of blunders left an elderly pensioner £26,000 worse off. The Pension Service – part of the Department for Work and Pensions – failed to send a...
Tragic story by John Chapman in the Daily Express of how a distraught son has told how he found his mother dead on her living room floor nearly 10 hours after an ambulance was sent...
The Government’s flagship Universal Credit has come under fresh attack after MPs said “very little progress” had been achieved though £700 million had been spent on the scheme since it began five years ago. The...
Awfully sad and depressing statistics show more men are taking their own lives than at any time since 2001, with the highest suicide rates occurring in deprived areas amid growing evidence of the link between...
Patients should be able to top-up their NHS treatment with small monthly payments in return for an ‘enhanced’ service, a report suggests. Allowing people who can afford it to invest extra money would raise billions...
Most national media sources this week have run the story of how a “totally shocking” report by one of the country’s most respected businessmen into how the NHS is run was handed into the Department...
James Moore’s comments in the Independent regarding the revelation that drug companies are giving up research on treatments for Alzheimers disease which appears to be nothing less than shameful. Alzheimer’s is a hideous condition that...
Careless government departments have created a £5billion black hole in taxpayers money, figures have revealed. It was squandered on a number of gaffes, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. The Ministry of Defence was the biggest...
An Exclusive in The Sun relates how a cop lay injured for two hours waiting for an ambulance in London – so colleagues called a LIFEBOAT. The officer was in agony from a squashed ankle...
The DWP have just released new figures which show that the average waiting time for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has more than halved since last summer. This improvement is due to a range of factors...