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Education boost by BASC sees £90k committed over five years

BASC has committed almost £90,000 over the past five years through its two scholarship schemes which provide financial support to students in further and higher education. This year, four young people are studying land-based courses thanks to BASC scholarships in colleges and universities spanning from Hampshire to Yorkshire. The recipients of the BASC Legacy Funded… Read more »

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MDU welcomes wide-ranging report by Lord Darzi on how to fix NHS

Responding to the independent report by Lord Darzi into the NHS, Dr Caroline Fryar, MDU director of professional services, said: “We welcome the government’s recognition that healthcare professionals are working in a broken system. Lord Darzi’s report has shone a spotlight on the scale of the challenge the NHS faces. Every day doctors go to work to… Read more »

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Spending watchdog says staff must be more involved in the NHS IT programme
NHS staff ‘must be involved’ in IT upgrade

The government has made “significant progress” in its £20 billion IT programme for the NHS, but its benefits must be better explained to staff, the public spending watchdog has warned. In a new report, the National Audit Office (NAO) says that while the aims of the national programme for IT are supported by NHS workers,… Read more »

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Head of the BMA's GP committee says NHS reform is going too fast
GP leader calls for slowdown in NHS reform

The government must slow down its reform of the NHS, which has introduced “unproven, expensive and destructive change”, a doctor’s leader warned today. Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) GPs committee, said change was necessary to get the “best out of us” but warned that the top-down and speedy way in which… Read more »