by Sam | 11 Sep 2014 | Uncategorized
Some local healthcare services in England have been left underfunded due to problems with Whitehall’s system of allocation, a report by the National Audit Office has said. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), NHS England area teams and local authorities all receive...
by Sam | 4 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
In the report of its Commission on Health and Social Care, the health think tank The King’s Fund has called for a single, ring-fenced budget for the NHS and social care, with a single commissioner for local services., rejecting new NHS charges and private...
by Sam | 1 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
All the talk over the summer has been that the Labour Party will look to make its poll lead on trust in leadership of the NHS central to its campaign for next year’s General Election, and reports in the Financial Times (£) at the weekend have suggested that the...
by Sam | 26 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services, General Election 2015, Politics
Liberal Democrat Care Minister Norman Lamb has called for drunk people who abuse A&E staff to be given an on-the-spot £50 fine as they are putting a “huge burden” on hospitals, according to The Daily Mail. Lamb went further to say that “it can be...
by Sam | 14 Aug 2014 | Uncategorized
Disproportionate funding cuts mean mental health services are “running dangerously close to collapse”, Professor Simon Wessely told the Guardian today in his first interview since being elected President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Despite the Health...
