Reports today suggest that the Government plan to increase the social care precept to 6% over the next year two years, amounting to a total increase of 1%. You can read our response to the reports...
Charlie Cooper writing in The Independent: Stress affecting one in three junior doctors, according to British Medical Association The job of a junior doctor is becoming “undoable”, the British Medical Association has said, as a...
Charities should be forced to sign up to a “fundraising preference service” allowing vulnerable people to block appeals for donations, according to a report commissioned after the suicide of Olive Cooke. Organisations would have to...
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...
Tory health chief Jeremy Hunt has been accused of backtracking on his pre-election pledge to recruit 5,000 GPs by 2020. He made the vow in the run-up to May 7 but last week stated the...
Matt Dathan writing in The Independent 12/03/15 about the back-hand interests of some MPs. One in four of the MPs who voted against introducing plain cigarette packaging have declared links to tobacco industries in the...
The NHS has sacked 79 bureaucrats after a government probe into tax-dodging. The Treasury have revealed today that the suspects who were employed in 2013 – 2014 could not prove they were “meeting their tax...
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...
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...
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