Medical Care

• NHS to receive £6.2 billion extra funding

  • PostedSeptember 9, 2019

  The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has announced a spending review that will see an extra £6.2bn going towards the NHS next year. This will include £210m for frontline staff. This should...

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• The number of GPs in the UK has dropped for a fourth year in a row

  • PostedMay 9, 2019

  The Nuffield Trust think tank for the BBC has found that the number of GPs per 100,000 people has dropped from 65 in 2014 to 60 in 2018. The decrease...

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• Major care provider seeking to transfer or sell its contracts

  • PostedNovember 16, 2018

  Allied Healthcare, a UK home care provider that helps 13,000 older and disabled people has been warned about its financial sustainability by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who regulates them....

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• NHS job vacancies becoming a national crisis

  • PostedSeptember 13, 2018

  It has been reported that the number of unfulfilled NHS jobs has once again started to climb. Roughly one in 11 posts is currently vacant. NHS bosses and government ministers...

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• Lack of radiologists is significantly delaying cancer care in the UK

  • PostedAugust 23, 2018

  The UK is currently experiencing a major shortage of senior radiologists which in turn is disrupting and delaying medical care, in particular cancer care. Between 2012 and 2017, the workload...

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