What? The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has earmarked a further £5.9 billion in public spending specifically for the NHS; to cut waiting lists for appointments and surgeries, and reduce the backlog in elective work, e.g. hip replacements, hernia repairs. This is in addition to a further £12 billion a year (£36 billion split across the next […]
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What? Health Secretary Sajid Javid has pledged £250 million to fund extra GPs to allow more face-to-face GP consultations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which rendered most GP visits telephone consultations only. Why? The public are frustrated that they cannot be seen face-to-face (F2F) like they used to, and the reported perception is […]
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What? A major inquiry published by a group of UK MPs has deemed the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic a failure, and goes so far to call its handling ‘one of the UK’s worst ever public health failures’. Why? A number of reasons have been put forward to explain the damning verdict passed down by the […]
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