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The MDU today welcomed the launch of the government’s new Change NHS initiative, designed to generate conversation and to encourage NHS staff, patients and stakeholder organisations to input their ideas and suggestions for the upcoming NHS 10 Year Health Plan. Announcing the project Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting said that ‘the health… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is delighted to announce a significant milestone for its BASC to School programme, having now engaged with 50,000 school children across the UK in 2024. This achievement takes BASC’s total engagement since 2021 to an impressive 127,261 schoolchildren and young people. The landmark highlights the programme’s growing… Read more »
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Tomorrow’s autumn statement is set to include measures to get hundreds of thousands of people with mobility and mental health problems into work as part of a bid to reduce benefits expenditure. Under plans to be announced in the autumn statement, to be revealed on Wednesday, these individuals face having their benefits reduced by £4,680… Read more »
Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, accused the Treasury during the pandemic of “pure dogma”, private notes written at the time reveal. Questioned at the Covid inquiry yesterday, Sir Patrick said his comments in October 2021 were probably made late at night in “frustration”. The entry said: “Economic predictions. HMT (the Treasury)… Read more »
