Jeremy Corbyn has appointed a shadow “Minister for Mental Health” to his shadow cabinet, Labour has announced. Luciana Berger will directly work on mental health issues and consider how they can best be addressed by...
Charlie Cooper for The Independent 11/09/2015) – As final details are ironed out in a deal between health authorities in Kent and France, not everyone is impressed The English have a long-running love affair with...
The Independent reports (08/09/2015) – The public will have no right to demand information from Michael Gove’s Commission The Government’s inquiry into whether freedom of information law should be watered down will not be subject...
Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent (05/09/2015) on the shameful state of our healthcare when – NHS cuts to drugs fund means thousands of cancer patients in England will be denied life-extending treatments. Thousands of...
Melanie Newman and Oliver Wright writing in The Independent (03/08/2015) – The lives of vulnerable care home residents were put at risk because the country’s healthcare regulators failed to act promptly on official warnings about...
Hugh Alderwick writes for the King’s Fund – a blog about the problem of overuse in the NHS: where people get services they don’t want or need, which can lead to unnecessary harm and wasted...
The Daily Mail comments – On day two of our investigation into abuses of the health service, it emerges that ministers have known for nine months about foreigners charging the NHS for treatment in their...
Stephen Hayward writing in the Sunday Mirror – Going to see your GP could be bad for your health, according to research. One in 10 surgeries is so rundown it poses a risk to patients....
Jeremy Hunt’s plans to include the price tag on medicines issued by the NHS is a “headline-grabbing ‘gimmick’ with no evidence to suggest it will reduce waste, a leading pharmaceuticals journal has said. The Government...
Public Health England has launched a nationwide ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign aimed at women aged 70 and over to drive awareness of the risk of breast cancer amongst this age group and to increase...
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