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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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The rules banning phone-taps on MPs should be lifted, the interception of communications commissioner has argued. In his annual and final report into intelligence gathering, Sir Swinton Thomas has called for the end of the so-called Wilson Doctrine, in order that no person is seen as being “above the law”. In 1966 Harold Wilson established… Read more »
The NHS is expected to end the financial year with a small surplus, despite a rise in the number of NHS organisations in deficit. Due to the creation of a central reserve, as well as strict budgeting measures imposed on over-spending trusts, the NHS as a whole is forecasting a net surplus of £13 million…. Read more »
