by Chris Rogers | 19 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce monthly mandatory reporting of numbers of staff on hospital wards, although he will reject a fixed minimum nurse-patient ratio. He will propose that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence draw up a ‘toolkit’...
by Chris Rogers | 19 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
The Reform think tank has called for the Government to consider extending prescription charges, as well as introducing new charges on visits to NHS GP surgeries and some elements of hospital care. Reform claimed that new charges on a greater range of prescriptions...
by Chris Rogers | 19 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
Health experts have called for the public to be given vaccination record cards and advised it is their civic duty to get immunised. the UK International Longevity Centre have warned that increasing migration, an ageing population and the growth of antibiotic...
by Chris Rogers | 19 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
Research by Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College London has claimed that up to 50,000 ‘excess’ deaths were recorded at hospitals. His research covers 2001 to 2010 and half of the trusts he identified were put into special measures this year, leading to accusations...
by Chris Rogers | 18 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s been claimed that NHS bosses are chasing “hit and run” health tourists treated in hospitals for at least £15 million. Hospital chiefs have already written off more than £2 million of the debts as unrecoverable. The £15 million is calculated from data released by...
