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, ...
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth today warned that the NHS urgently needs a £500m NHS winter bailout. The much needed cash was required to help increase capacity in struggling hospitals and to pay for extra staff. There are major concerns that the NHS could be at breaking point this festive season, without an ...
GMB analysis of ‘appalling’ new official wage figures reveals the shocking scale of the real-terms pay cuts endured by NHS workers. The latest official estimates of staff earnings, which were published this morning show ambulance staff have had their real terms pay slashed by £7,500 a year compared to their ...
Even though the UK statistics watchdog calculated that the promise of an extra £350m a week for the NHS post-Brexit was “misleading,” Boris Johnson has decided to make the claim again. The article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, could be seen as many, as another attempt by Boris to ...
Remember this summer, not long after the General Election Theresa May called so that Britain could enjoy a "strong and stable" Government, just a fortnight after firefighters had fought to save the residents of Grenfell Tower, the PM survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party ...
A husband and wife who lived a lavish lifestyle after defrauding the NHS out of £3.4m have been stripped of assets totalling almost £600,000. Neil Wood, 42, and Lisa Wood, 41, used the money to fund expensive football tickets, Christmas presents and family holidays. Wood also organised lavish away days ...
A disgruntled hospital visitor has slammed a sandwich company for "ripping off the NHS" with an 'egg salad sandwich' - with hardly any EGG in it. Carl Simpson, 48, was visiting his wife Maria in hospital when she ordered the sandwich through the hospital's catering team. When poorly Maria opened ...