After a successful campaign to improve the safe space provisions in the Health and Care Bill, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explains why this is a step forward for patient safety. Following its return from the House of Lords to the House of Commons this week, both chambers have now agreed that coroners should not routinely… Read more »
Research by new longevity think tank Phoenix Insights reveals millions at risk of struggling later in life without fresh interventions Data from inaugural Longer Lives Index finds over 10 million people fear their ability to stay in work up to retirement 7 million people expect to rely significantly on money from friends and family in… Read more »
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The Health Service Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, has announced a sharp rise in the number of complaints about the NHS in the last year. To the end of the last financial year she received almost four thousand complaints, a significant number more than the 2,660 received the year before. While this appears to indicate a significant… Read more »
A new report from Alcohol Concern has found that twice as many people are dying from drinking too much today compared to the 1970’s. The figures revealed at its Legal But Lethal conference show that almost 6,000 people died due to the directly attributable affects of alcohol in 2001. This compares to only 1,498 deaths… Read more »
