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GP’s ‘enormous relief’ extra £500 million pledged by SNP to be spent in primary care

By The Press Association25th May 2017News Scotland

An extra £500 million pledged by the First Minister for primary health care must be specifically invested in GP surgeries, doctors have insisted. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)

Home Secretary condemns ‘barbaric’ Manchester attack which targeted vulnerable

By The Press Association23rd May 2017News England

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said the Manchester explosion was a “barbaric” attack on some of the “most vulnerable in our society”. She said the intention of the attack was

Government accused of staged cover-up as NHS trusts shortfall set to hit £750m

By Jack Hardy23rd May 2017News England

NHS trusts are expected to have seen a shortfall of as much as £750 million in the last financial year, a health chief has said. Chris Hopson, chief executive of

Tory ‘dementia tax’ could see nine in 10 homes sold to cover care costs – Lib Dems

By Shaun Connolly22nd May 2017News England

Tory plans to shake-up funding for social care could see nine out of 10 English homes eligible to be put on the market to cover treatment costs, the Liberal Democrats

Tory social care funding plans may flounder due to poorly performing councils

By Gavin Cordon22nd May 2017News England

Conservative plans for councils to recoup the care costs of elderly people from their estates after they die may flounder due to poor-performing local authorities, a former pensions minister has

PM makes dramatic social care U-turn after ‘dementia tax’ sees Tories’ poll ratings dip

By The Press Association22nd May 2017News England

Theresa May has made a dramatic U-turn on her manifesto policy on social care amid signs that controversy over a so-called “dementia tax” was hurting Conservatives in the polls. Just

Tories distance themselves from report over ‘destitution built in asylum system’

By The Press Association22nd May 2017News Scotland

Conservative members of a Holyrood committee have “dissented” from an official report which claims “destitution is built into the UK asylum process”. The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee

Labour blasts Tories as ‘nasty party’ over ‘shameful attack’ on older people

By David Hughes19th May 2017News England

Theresa May’s manifesto showed the Tories had returned to being the “nasty party”, Labour said as it warned 10 million pensioners would lose their winter fuel payments under her plans.

Scotland’s A&E departments to get £9 million extra to meet waiting-times targets

By The Press Association19th May 2017News Scotland

An extra £9 million of funding has been announced for hospital accident-and-emergency departments in a bid to help them meet waiting-times targets. Health Secretary Shona Robison pledged additional funding for

Tag: Government / Politics

GP’s ‘enormous relief’ extra £500 million pledged by SNP to be spent in primary care

Home Secretary condemns ‘barbaric’ Manchester attack which targeted vulnerable

Government accused of staged cover-up as NHS trusts shortfall set to hit £750m

Tories distance themselves from report over ‘destitution built in asylum system’

Scotland’s A&E departments to get £9 million extra to meet waiting-times targets

Urgent need for training to spot and act on sex abuse within families, review finds

Body-in-garden trial told three-year-old died after parents’ ‘breathtaking’ cruelty

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Tag: Government / Politics

GP’s ‘enormous relief’ extra £500 million pledged by SNP to be spent in primary care

Home Secretary condemns ‘barbaric’ Manchester attack which targeted vulnerable

Government accused of staged cover-up as NHS trusts shortfall set to hit £750m

Tory ‘dementia tax’ could see nine in 10 homes sold to cover care costs – Lib Dems

Tory social care funding plans may flounder due to poorly performing councils

PM makes dramatic social care U-turn after ‘dementia tax’ sees Tories’ poll ratings dip

Tories distance themselves from report over ‘destitution built in asylum system’

Dugdale attacks PM over ‘chaotic’ and ‘humiliating’ U-turn on social care costs

Labour blasts Tories as ‘nasty party’ over ‘shameful attack’ on older people

Scotland’s A&E departments to get £9 million extra to meet waiting-times targets