by Sam | 31 Mar 2014 | Health, Whitehouse News
More than half of Britons do not support paying for a GP appointment, even if payment protected their local GP surgery from closure, according to a new ComRes poll commissioned by political communications specialist The Whitehouse Consultancy. Despite charges existing...
by Sam | 28 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s been reported that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has had a number of rows with NHS leaders amid accusations from senior NHS figures that he is an interfering ‘control freak’. Senior NHS figures have expressed concern that Hunt has torn up the Government’s pledges...
by Sam | 27 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
The British Medical Journal has said councils in England are using public health budgets to fund other services. Local councils in England took over responsibility – and funding – for public health last April. The BMJ says Freedom of Information requests...
by Sam | 24 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s been claimed that fraud in the health service costs the taxpayer £5 billion each year. A University of Portsmouth and BDO publication concluded that a further £2 billion is wasted due to errors. Key types of fraud include the non-payment of prescription charges...
by Sam | 17 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
Charities have claimed that thousands of vulnerable dementia patients suffer ‘conveyor belt care’, with some seeing more than 40 different care workers within six months. Experts warned that confused elderly people were being left in fear as councils and agencies sent...
