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...But though he has pledged to protect public spending on defence, education and the NHS, other departments risk being squeezed....
...Senior NHS doctors, known as consultants, face a deadline to vote on further strike action beyond their existing mandate, which expires on December 26....
...The NHS, the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system, celebrates its 75th birthday on Wednesday....
...Private sector investment is needed in diagnostics and digital systems for the NHS; in upgrading the energy grid; in life sciences and manufacturing....
...In the UK, chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey will address business leaders at the annual Mansion House dinner....
...by explaining how a change of government could deliver economic growth, safer streets, cheaper homegrown power, better opportunities and a rejuvenated NHS....
...Overtime plan | Keir Starmer set out his party’s plan to tackle the NHS crisis and reduce the acute backlog in appointment waiting times at Labour’s conference yesterday....
...Just take the NHS: in January 2011, 17 people were forced to wait more than 12 hours in a hospital emergency department for admission or discharge in England. This January, it was 54,000....
...Silicon Valley-based Zipline is to deliver medical supplies by drone for the UK’s NHS in a pioneering move that is meant to cut costs and improve services to hundreds of thousands of patients....
...Total pay grew 8.5 per cent, boosted by one-off payments to NHS workers and civil servants following pay deals to end strike action....
...The governor’s message went down like a lead balloon....
...Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England governor, said the source of inflation was unexpected....
...A recent speech by Fed Governor Philip Jefferson signalled to the market that a rate increase is unlikely at this month’s Fed meeting, but further down the road the range of possibilities is wide....
...More health workers will strike over pay in the UK this week, but unions have heeded the offer of meaningful negotiations by the NHS employers....
...“Higher debt servicing costs are becoming a material factor in terms of fiscal spending — it limits the ability of the government to spend on the NHS and other key public services.”...
...Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England governor, has repeatedly highlighted this increase in economic inactivity due to ill health, as a development that is likely to stoke inflation and result in higher interest...
...Asked about tax cuts, Hunt said: “The way to grow the economy, the way to give ourselves more headroom, to spend more on public services like the NHS, to bring down the tax burden, is to tackle inflation...
...Andrew Bailey, Bank of England governor, said he now expected “modest, but positive growth” this year....
...Waiting lists in the NHS are considerably larger now than in 1997, when Blair told voters on the eve of the election they had “24 hours to save the NHS”....
..., East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust US, nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards for theatre productions announced Wednesday Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country...
...Junior doctors walk out | A senior NHS leader has warned that patients will face “significant disruption” and thousands of cancelled appointments as junior doctors in England prepare to walk out for 72 hours...
...There is nervousness in government, as figures including Sir John Gieve, former Bank of England deputy governor, question whether larger pay rises for public sector workers would significantly fuel inflation...
...BoE governor Andrew Bailey and chancellor Jeremy Hunt had joined forces to demand wage restraint the day before the new data....
...Trump, before being elected in Arkansas as the youngest governor in the US....
...Dales said that with labour force participation problems related to ill health and problems in the NHS, “we feel these [unique UK] problems will stick around longer”....
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