This week the Budget, living in London and Sussex Health Care have dominated the news. The Chancellor announces NHS funding in the Budget This week, the Chancellor announced the Budget in Parliament. He had previously been warned that the NHS needed £4bn in order to ‘look after patients properly next year’. The figures announced were…
This week breast cancer, gene editing and doctors leaving the NHS have dominated the news. The NHS have approved two new ‘breakthrough’ breast cancer drugs Palbociclib and robociclib have been approved by NICE to be prescribed to women with previously untreatable breast cancer. The two drugs are seen as ‘breakthrough’, and they have been shown…
This week NHS funding, smartphone GP appointments and genetically modified skin have dominated the news. Simon Stevens demands £350m a week NHS funding promised to Brexit voters NHS Chief Executive, Simon Stevens addressed the NHS Providers conference earlier this week and called for the funding promised to voters in the Brexit campaign to be delivered…
This week Fraud in the NHS, legal battles and nurse numbers have dominated the news. ‘Despicable’ fraud costs the NHS £1bn a year Analysis from the NHS Counter Fraud Authority details how fraud is costing the NHS an estimated £1.25bn each year, approximately 1% of its annual budget. The two biggest areas of fraud are…
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