Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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Transport for London bans ‘anti-gay’ adverts
Transport for London tells Channel 4 News it banned an advert which suggests gay people can be converted to heterosexuality because it was “offensive”.
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NHS watchdog attacks abortion clinic checks
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s demand that abortion clinics be inspected at short notice cost £1m and led to hospital and care home inspections being cancelled, says the CQC.
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NHS reforms ‘threaten emergency care’
With the NHS bill receiving royal assent, a leaked document drawn up by senior civil servants warns that the government’s reforms could damage the health service.
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FactCheck: How many lives will alcohol strategy save?
“Analysts decided that a certain fraction of people who, say, fall over and twist their ankle, do so because they are drunk. Extensive anecdotal evidence collected by FactCheck suggests that may well be true.”
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FactCheck: Is the government breaking the law on the NHS?
“So two decisions have gone against the government, but they still haven’t come up with the all-important document. Does that mean, as Andy Burnham claimed, that they are technically flouting the law?”
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Rising hospital car park costs labelled ‘tax on the sick’
The price of parking in a hospital car park has increased at nearly a third of England’s NHS trusts, new figures reveal, with critics telling Channel 4 News the costs are “exorbitant” and “unfair”.
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NHS whistleblowers must be protected – MPs
Doctors and nurses who raise concerns about standards of care in the NHS should be protected against punishment, according to a committee of MPs.
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Can competition be good for the NHS?
As the Lords debate controversial NHS reforms, Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald asks if there can be good competition and bad competition in the NHS?
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Andrew Lansley mobbed by angry NHS campaigners
As tensions run high during a protest outside the NHS summit, the excluded parties tell Channel 4 News what they think the prime minister needs to hear.
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‘Pay top civil servants more’ to discourage tax avoidance
Union leader calls for a pay rise for senior civil servants, after it is revealed some are paid as limited companies, a potentially tax saving device. But are they playing fair?
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NHS ‘failing those with learning disabilities’
The charity Mencap says the NHS is guilty of institutional discrimination against people with learning difficulties and is calling on the government to tackle the issue.
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FactCheck: What’s really going on with the NHS?
“Does this mean the NHS is falling to pieces under the coalition? Clearly not.”
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Physicians call emergency talks over NHS plans
The Royal College of Physicians agrees to a request by a group of its members to call an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the NHS bill, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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MPs criticise government’s NHS reforms
NHS managers are “salami-slicing” services as they struggle to cut costs at the same time as the government presses for reform, MPs warn, as a top NHS figure tells Channel 4 News of “financial chaos”.
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Drug legalisation debate may be missing the point
As Sir Richard Branson recommends decriminalising drugs, Channel 4 News hears that the real fight for those harmed by drug misuse is against cuts to care.