The cost of the junior doctors’ strike to NHS England will be more than awarding them the 35% pay rise they are demanding. The revelation comes as junior doctors begin their latest round of industrial with a four day walkout from 7am on Friday to 7am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, official figures released by the government […]
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The government is turning to the private sector to cut record waiting lists in the biggest expansion of private capital in the NHS since Tony Blair’s New Labour government. NHS England will be able to perform almost 750,000 more checks and tests through 13 new “one-stop-shop” diagnostic centres – more than half of which will […]
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Ministers, MPs and retail bosses have warned Rishi Sunak that his plans for voluntary food price caps will lead to shortages on shelves and “not make a jot difference” to prices. Government ministers are also part of a growing backlash against the proposal to ask supermarkets and retailers to agree maximum prices for basic items […]
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Prime minister Rishi Sunak has “performed a major U-turn”, the Guardian reports, and the UK will now impose Covid checks on people arriving to the UK from China where coronavirus cases are surging. Sunak has responded to growing criticism from Conservative MPs over his “dithering” on the issue and the mixed messages from his government […]
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