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Universal health care: how to become a national hero
A universal health system paid for out of taxes was hugely popular and has remained so. And the man who pushed through the legislation, Aneurin Bevan, has been glorified ever since.
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The government has announced a £1.3bn plan to expand the mental health workforce with a “challenging” recruitment drive. The aim is to help the NHS care for an additional one million patients by 2020-21, according to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. We put his claims to the FactCheck test.
A universal health system paid for out of taxes was hugely popular and has remained so. And the man who pushed through the legislation, Aneurin Bevan, has been glorified ever since.
The claim VoteLeave says UK gives £5.8bn more to EU countries for medical costs than it gets back, which campaigners say means “health tourism from the EU has cost us billions”. VoteLeave Chair and Labour MP, Gisela Stuart, April, 2016 Does the UK lose £723m a year caring for migrants in the NHS? According to Vote…
Safe drinking limits are reduced by the UK’s chief medical officers, with a stark warning that any amount of alcohol can damage health.
New rules obliging the NHS to report when something has gone wrong, are not to be applied to private clinics and GPs, warns a patients’ charity.
Apart from a pledge to fight dementia, most of the health measures had already been trailed. But then, the 2010 manifesto only hinted at the size of the NHS reorganisation that followed.
A Ukip government would spend an extra £3bn a year on the NHS. Where will the money come from – and will it be enough to pay for all the promises?
The NHS is creaking but reports of its demise have been exaggerated, FactCheck finds.
A government pledge to improve access to mental health treatments by bringing in targets is widely welcomed. But it falls short when it comes to talking therapies for teens and children, say experts.
Almost two thirds of mental health trusts in England that responded to a Channel 4 News freedom of information request say their funding has been cut, with a shortage of beds threatening patient care.
Malnutrition is something most of us associate with the third world or even the world of Dickens. But new figures show hospital admissions in England have nearly doubled in the last five years.
Almost a quarter of NHS walk-in centres have closed in just three years, making it harder for vulnerable and poorer people to access health services, a regulator warns.
Britons are more likely to die early than people in most wealthy nations, according to new research published in the Lancet, and experts fear that the gap is widening.
Public health officials are on alert after a second case of a potentially lethal new virus was confirmed in the UK, writes Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke.
Claims by council leaders that more than a million children at academies and free schools could be eating unhealthy meals are rejected by these schools and the government.