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BASC response to threatened ban on driven grouse shooting

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is urging supporters of sustainable shooting to take immediate action in response to a petition by Wild Justice calling for a ban on grouse shooting. Many newly elected MPs may be unfamiliar with the environmental, social and economic benefits sustainable grouse shooting delivers, leaving them open to… Read more »

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MDU urges government not to back track on clinical negligence reform

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »

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The health watchdog rejected an appeal to make Alzheimer's drugs more widely available
Alzheimer’s sufferers ‘denied drugs’

Thousands of people suffering from early stage Alzheimer’s will be denied drugs on the NHS following a ruling by the health watchdog today. Charities lost their appeal to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (Nice) to make the £2.50-a-day anti-dementia drugs more widely available. The institute instead ruled that donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine would only… Read more »

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David Cameron sets out his plans for the NHS
Cameron calls for NHS independence

The Conservatives have today put forward their plans for an NHS independence bill which would take politicians out of the day-to-day running of the health service. Leader David Cameron also committed the party to an increase in real terms spending on public services, saying: “All parties support increased funding for the NHS.” Speaking to the… Read more »