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...
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...
Charlie Cooper writing in The Independent (01/08/2015) – Jeremy Hunt has “peddled myths” about medics’ workload and demoralised the NHS workforce over plans for more seven-day services, the leader of the country’s doctors has claimed,...
Let the “in-fighting” begin Charity leaders are warning the Government’s moves to give Greater Manchester power over health and social care spending could be flawed because voluntary organisations appear to have been forgotten in plans....
Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent – More patients could be denied NHS treatments, with hearing aids, vasectomies and knee and hip operations among services set to be rationed in some areas, as a result...
Ian Johnston writes in The Independent – Some £1.8bn has been spent on NHS staff redundancy pay-offs since the Government’s restructuring of the health service, according to new figures. More than 44,000 people have been...
Richard Humphries, Assistant Director of Policy at the King’s Fund explores the options for integrated commissioning: The last reorganisation of the NHS has made the commissioning landscape much more complex and fragmented. Whatever the weaknesses...
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