by Sam | 13 May 2014 | Uncategorized
Freedom of information requests from The Daily Telegraph have found that nine NHS England board members spent £195,82 on travel, meals and hotels in 2013-14. Simon Stevens, who took up the NHS England Chief Executive last month, ordered an immediate ban on first...
by Sam | 8 May 2014 | Uncategorized
Doctors are to consider proposals to charge patients for missing GP appointments. The British Medical Association will decide whether to back plans that would introduce charges. Under the plan, patients could be charged a flat fee of up to £25. The proposed fee is...
by Sam | 29 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
The Public Accounts Committee has warned that inaccuracies in data on waiting times might result in patients’ trust in the NHS being “inevitably undermined”. MPs have called for independent reviews of hospital trusts’ statistics as many...
by Sam | 28 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
Labour Shadow Secretary Andy Burnham has warned that the NHS could be “carved open” for US companies to exploit for profit. Andy Burnham said the NHS must be exempt from the EU-US trade treaty currently being negotiated as it threatens the “fabric” of a universally...
by Sam | 23 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
Campaigners are calling on pharmaceutical company Roche to cut the price of a pioneering new breast cancer treatment amid indications the NHS drugs watchdog is set to reject its use on the service on cost grounds. NICE said the £90,000 cost of trastuzumab emtansine is...
