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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 »
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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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 »
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 »