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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 »
The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
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The new health secretary Alan Johnson has admitted the government failed to carry NHS professionals on past reforms. In his first address to the Commons this afternoon, Mr Johnson said the government had “not managed to keep the profession on board” during its succession of reforms. Mr Johnson said the government had learnt professionals know… Read more »
Only a completely new approach to public services will reverse low morale among workers, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has warned Gordon Brown. In a submission to a forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, the union savaged the government’s “ill thought out” reforms of public services and below inflation pay rises in the sector. Gordon Brown accepted… Read more »
