Almost two and a half thousand doctors are set to flee the NHS following Brexit. Worrying research has revealed that nearly a fifth of doctors working in the health service from the European Economic Area have already made solid plans to leave the country following the out vote. A total of ...
The National Health Service should receive the cash boost it was promised during the EU referendum, boss Simon Stevens is expected to say later. The health service was promised £350 million a week during the referendum financed by the payments we would receive back from Europe when we are divorced from ...
Jeremy Corbyn attacked the government’s poor record on tackling tax avoidance today, revealing that UK exchequer is missing out on between £34bn and £119bn in tax - enough to cover the education budget or the NHS. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he quizzed Theresa May about why the Tories have repeatedly ...
Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt today delivered a car crash interview on the BBC Andrew Marr programme. In the toe-curling interview, Marr pointed out that Hunt was displaying signs of split personality disorder. The third longest serving Secretary of State for Health in the history of the nation began by reeling ...
The SNP government’s failure to tackle delayed discharge has cost the NHS more than £100 million in the last year, according to Labour analysis confirmed by the independent experts at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice). NHS Scotland estimates that it costs £214 per day to keep a patient in ...
Treatments for cancer, arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) are among drugs costing the cash-strapped NHS over a billion pounds a year - despite public funding playing a substantial role in the medicines’ development. Our new joint report with Global Justice Now, Pills and Profits: How drug companies make a killing ...
The companies eating up the publicly-funded NHS are unlikely to ever give anything back in tax, it has emerged today. Analysis by Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant at Tax Research UK, found that Virgin Care Ltd, which has been quietly eating up large chunks of the NHS, is "unlikely to ...
Instead of wasting money creating Uber for the NHS, why doesn’t the health secretary give all NHS staff the pay rise they desperately need? GMB, the union for public sector workers, says a new healthcare workforce app unveiled by Jeremy Hunt will bring the gig economy to the NHS. In ...
By Benjamin Jenkins Jeremy Hunt has been called out for trying to rewrite history at the Conservative Party Conference after he claimed that the Tories were responsible for the creation of the National Health Service. The Secretary of State for Health played a clip from 1944 when the NHS was founded, ...