NHS treatments: what would you prioritise?
There is nothing new about treatments being rationed in the NHS, but if you had to decide, what would you prioritise, asks Victoria Macdonald.
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Doctors are taking industrial action for the first time in 40 years in a dispute with the government over changes to their pensions.
As doctors stage industrial action for the first time in 40 years, Channel 4 News asks if the move has lost them goodwill?
There is nothing new about treatments being rationed in the NHS, but if you had to decide, what would you prioritise, asks Victoria Macdonald.
As bunting lines the streets of Britain, Channel 4 News looks at the modern day anti-establishment scene and looks for the alternative soundtrack to this year’s jubilee.
Doctors will take industrial action on June 21 in the bitter row over the Government’s controversial pension reforms.
“He’s also right that overall clinical staff levels have risen…but only if you choose your time frame carefully.”
Campaigners across 50 towns in the UK stage ‘pro-life chains’ on the anniversary of the abortion act of 1967. Pro-choice campaigners tell Channel 4 News the demonstrators are in the minority.
Jeremy Hunt’s defence must be that it wasn’t him that was in direct contact with the Murdoch team but his Special Adviser Adam Smith and the Mr Smith wasn’t representing his real thoughts.
Britain’s biggest abortion provider has been subject to 2,500 hacking attempts in the last five weeks, amid concerns about the politicisation of the abortion debate and hostile targeting of women.
The records of 6,000 NHS patients are having to be reviewed after a private company admitted it had failed to make essential checks on their X-rays.
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.
“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.”
Interesting to see if it moves after the headlines yesterday. I was struck (not physically) at a pensioners’ line-dancing club in Lewisham yesterday by how few pensioners had actually bought a newspaper that day. They’d got their information off the TV news, formed a pretty dim view of what was going on but were, for the most part, not in open revolt.
A minimum price per unit of alcohol is to be introduced in England and Wales alongside a ban on multi-buy discount deals.
Around 7,000 more women than previously thought have been fitted with the banned PIP breast implants, says the government.