Badenoch hits back at claims India-UK trade deal could hike prices for NHS after agreement is leaked November 5, 2022 Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch has hit back at claims the NHS could be set to pay higher costs for drugs as a result of a UK-India trade deal. It has emerged that a leaked chapter of the free trade agreement (FTA) between UK and India contains provisions that suggests, amongst other things, pharmaceutical companies would be allowed [...]
NHS Trusts back out of working with Bupa over unpaid medical bills October 30, 2022 At least two NHS Trusts have reportedly backed out of working with medical insurer Bupa over claims of unpaid bills. The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust has called in lawyers and is threatening court action over £400,000 worth of private patient’s medical bills, which have gone unpaid, The Sunday Times first reported. Oxford University Hospitals [...]
‘You need to try harder’: Sunak confronted by patient over nurses’ pay October 28, 2022 Rishi Sunak has been called out over nurses’ pay during a visit to a south London hospital this afternoon. In a visit to Croydon Hospital, the prime minister was confronted by 77-year-old Catherine Poole, a patient, who said it was a “pity you don’t pay them more” in reference to the surrounding nurses. Sunak replied [...]
Pfizer and Flynn Pharma to appeal £70m fine for price hiking October 27, 2022 Pfizer and Flynn Pharma have filed an appeal against the UK’s competition watchdog over its decision to fine the firms £70m for hiking the price of a life-saving epilepsy drug. Pharma giant Pfizer and privately-owned neuroscience specialist Flynn are appealing the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) £70m fine, after the two firms previously forced the [...]
Hundreds of thousands of nurses to vote on strike over pay in historic ballot October 6, 2022 Britain’s largest nursing union will poll hundreds of thousands of its members today over strike action, the biggest ballot in its 106-year history. The Royal College of Nursing union is campaigning for a pay rise of five per cent above inflation, which currently stands at 9.9 per cent – the highest in around 40-years. Around [...]
Junior doctors threaten ballot to strike over NHS ‘paltry’ pay August 31, 2022 The summer of discontent is set to widen to junior doctors next month, with the British Medical Association to ballot junior doctors for industrial action. The organisation held an emergency meeting this week, with its co-chairs writing to the secretary of state for health and social care, Steve Barclay, expressing their concerns about pay. The [...]
Stunned UK medics ecstatic as British woman beats cancer and makes miracle recovery after taking brand new drug August 30, 2022 Cancer researchers and medics across the UK are ecstatic as it has been reported that a woman with deadly bile duct cancer is surviving against all the odds thanks to a new experimental drug. Carol Hardy, 65, is taking part in a clinical trial the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, and doctors hope the [...]
Soaring energy bills could plunge Britain into a ‘humanitarian crisis,’ NHS leaders warn August 19, 2022 NHS leaders have warned that soaring energy bills could plunge the UK into a “humanitarian crisis” by driving a surge in hospital admissions. The heads of NHS trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland called on the government limit price hikes and offer greater financial support to prevent a “public health emergency”. The NHS chiefs [...]
Charity boss CV fraudster must pay back 15 per cent of salary, Supreme Court says August 18, 2022 A charity chief executive should be forced to repay almost £100,000 of his more than £640,000 annual salary following the discovery he lied on his CV to get the job, the Supreme Court has said. The verdict saw the Supreme Court take a “middle way” approach in ruling that former St Margaret’s Hospice chief executive [...]
Sunak’s pledge to fine NHS no-shows slammed by British Medical Association July 31, 2022 The British Medical Association (BMA) has today hit back at Rishi Sunak’s pledge to issue £10 fines to patients for missed GP appointments. The trade association said charging patients was not the answer to tackling the NHS backlog, and that it is “terribly disappointing that the candidates standing to be the next prime minister seem [...]