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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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Cancer charities have today condemned the decision by the health watchdog not to make two bowel cancer drugs available on the NHS. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) decided that bevacizumab (Avastin) and cetuximab (Erbitux), which cost £17,000 and £12,000 per patient respectively, were not cost effective given the other demands on the NHS… Read more »
The government has given the go-ahead for six new NHS hospitals to be built under the controversial private finance initiative (PFI) deals worth £1.5 billion. The proposals would take the value of hospitals being built by private construction firms, who are paid back by the NHS trust over 20 or 30 years, to over £10… Read more »
