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Over 20 human rights, pro-choice, and international aid groups, and the Norwegian and Danish Governments, have called on the UK Government to reverse its decision to arbitrarily strip ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international human rights statement it – and 22 other countries – signed only two weeks ago…. Read more »
Longevity think tank Phoenix Insights, part of Phoenix Group, is today calling for the Government to reinvest up to £1billion of the potential savings that will come about if it raises the state pension age again, to support those most negatively impacted by a rise. The last rise in state pension age did not simply… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Funding to help hospitals cope with working-hours limits for doctors to be introduced next year is not reaching the frontline, it has been claimed. The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned the £100 million made available in 2008 to help compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) is not getting through…. Read more »
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has said if the airline industry had the track record of the NHS on hospital infection it would have been “grounded years ago”. In an interview with the BBC the new vice president of the Patients Association criticised the government for not doing more than “tinkering” with the problem. He… Read more »
