Victoria Macdonald
Lib Dem manifesto: equal care for mental health guaranteed
This is certainly the first time I can remember mental health being given such prominence in a manifesto, but the pledge of £500m a year seems far too low.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Victoria Macdonald
Few surprises on health in today’s Conservative manifesto
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.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS: Miliband refuses to sign up to ‘totemic’ £8bn increase
The chances are the £8bn being touted around this election will become many more billions by the next election.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS: Labour and Tory claims on GPs and A&E put to test
Does it really matter whose facts and figures are right? In the end, it is all about perception. The rhetoric for some time now has been that it is difficult to get a GP appointment.
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Jon Snow
Britain's health service: the best in the world?
So far, so predictable. One week of the formal election campaign underway and one key political football emerges, as so often before, the NHS.
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FactCheck: has the mental health budget been cut?
Ministers insist the government has not cut spending on mental health services. So where is the evidence?
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Is Osborne committed to extra £30bn for NHS by 2020?
Chancellor George Osborne tells Channel 4 News his party is committed to the NHS. Does that include the extra £30bn a year for the service by 2020 promised by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt?
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Hunt grilled: could the Tories really afford a 24/7 NHS?
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the Conservatives are making “good progress” towards better NHS availability as David Cameron promises a 24/7 health service.
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New heart transplant procedure set to ‘save hundreds’
A landmark procedure carried out at a UK hospital is set to significantly increase the number of lives saved among people waiting for a heart transplant.
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Penrose inquiry: PM apologises for NHS blood contamination
David Cameron says sorry on behalf of the government to thousands of people infected with Hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated blood or blood products used by the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s.
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FactCheck Q&A: who will save the NHS?
All the main parties say the NHS will be safe in their hands. But how will they plug what experts say is a £30bn funding gap?
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Debating the future of the NHS
The NHS is the number one issue for voters ahead of the May election. With A&E under pressure, an ageing population and a funding gap, what is the future of #yourNHS?
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Victoria Macdonald
Little prospect of relief for cash-strapped NHS in the budget
Will there be any relief for the NHS in the chancellor’s statement? I have spoken to a number of health economists and the general feeling is there’s not likely to be much.
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FactCheck: David Cameron’s broken promises
What David Cameron said would happen before the last election – and what really happened.
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Does the growing migrant population give more than it takes?
Immigration is rarely out of the headlines. With Ukip making it a key election issue, David Cameron has had to sit up and take notice. Here are the facts.
