Jonathan Ashworth, Shadow Secretary of State for Health: "Virgin Care recently won a £100 million contract for children’s health services in Lancashire, but in the Secretary of State’s own backyard of Surrey, Virgin Care recently took legal action against the NHS, forcing it to settle out of court. This money should ...
After the chair of one of the country’s top NHS trusts resigned in protest against government NHS cuts making his and other hospital's job impossible, the shadow health secretary made an emergency statement to the House of Commons today. "Lord Kerslake said our NHS faces the tightest spending figures in ...
When Virgin Care did not win the healthcare contracts they wanted they sued the cash-strapped NHS for £328,000. And yet despite that, they have been awarded another NHS contract. For £104 million. Currently over 68,000 people have signed a petition to demand Richard Branson’s Virgin Care hands back over £328,000 ...
Bob Kerslake has quit his senior role in the NHS because he believes the Government is failing to understand the scale of the funding shortfall, which is plunging the health service into disarray. He has resigned as the chair of the board at King’s College hospital in London. He told ...
Professor Stephen Hawking has joined a lawsuit aimed at preventing greater privatisation of the National Health Service. The revered professor, who has been vocal about the dismantling of the NHS, added his name to legal action seeking to prevent the establishment of "accountable care organisations" (ACOs) in the NHS, which threaten to ...
A cash-strapped NHS Trust has banned doctors and nurses from using free tea and coffee machines – telling staff to drink HOT WATER instead. Health chiefs say it is too expensive to provide beverages to staff and from now on they will restrict free hot drinks to just patients and ...
Philip Hammond put aside more money for Brexit than the NHS in the 2017 Budget in a reversal of the promises outlined during the referendum campaign. The Chancellor said £3 billion would be spent on Brexit planning, while just £2.8 billion will go to the NHS. In a deeply ironic twist ...
Over reliance on repeat prescriptions is costing the NHS almost £8 BILLION a year - its biggest cost after staff and almost half its total spend on medicine. A new report produced by the University of Bradford’s Dr Duncan Petty has revealed that almost half of the population are reliant ...
A partially blind woman who can barely walk is no longer eligible for a free NHS service to take her to hospital appointments - because she is "too healthy". Pamela Midgley, 61, has up to three check-ups a month at different hospitals as she battles a degenerative eye disease, chronic ...