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...Letter in response to this article: The NHS has no reason to fear serious competition / From John Murray, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...Last week, Sir John Bell, the immunologist and entrepreneur who will soon lead the Ellison Institute of Technology at Oxford university, told the FT that a businessperson could take the UKRI helm, to inject...
...Investors are expecting the BoE to cut interest rates this year by nearly 1.25 percentage points from 5.25 per cent....
...The 393 newly elected Labour MPs showed their passion and their intention when, on August 1, the first day of the new parliament, they enthusiastically sang “The Red Flag”....
...The Treasury said a further £1.4bn would be raised over two years by increasing visa fees for migrant workers and putting up their annual NHS “surcharge” by 66 per cent to £1,035....
...Borrowing falls from 4.2% of GDP in 2023-24, to 3.1%, 2.7%, 2.3%, 1.6% and 1.2% in 2028-29. By the end of the forecast, borrowing is at its lowest level of GDP since 2001....
...You just spent 18 months finding John Doe to fill that job gap; you’re not going to rush to fire him in this downturn....
...On top of those two, there are all those “Dear John” letters, and then we have “John Doe” for police files when an accused’s name is unknown....
...His remarks came after John Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, said that ministers were aware of “the implications for inflation” when deciding whether workers should get pay rises....
...More so, you know, it’s not even the 1 per cent, it’s probably like the 0.1 per cent. And in some ways, Labour has sort of done this before....
...Labour’s love-in with business reached its zenith on February 1 at the Oval in south London....
...Using the private equity “carried interest, two and 20” business model, they take a management fee of 1 to 2 per cent of committed capital and a 20 per cent cut of profits once a hurdle has been cleared....
...The strike action by nurses and ambulance drivers presents a serious problem for a government which accepted an independent pay review body’s proposal for a £1,400 pay increase for more than 1mn NHS staff...
...As the UK experiences another nurses strike, John Burn-Murdoch examines how stress, burnout and workplace culture are driving a mounting exodus of Britain’s medics....
...Smith’s mother was a nurse, his father an industrial worker; both were republicans....
...Britain has two hospital beds per 1,000 people, fewer than any other wealthy western nation, and far fewer MRI and CAT scanners than its counterparts....
...Ucas figures last week showed 1,560 fewer students had enrolled on to nursing courses this year, while the number of UK nurses leaving the NHS increased by more than a fifth between 2021 and 2020....
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
...Humza Yousaf has unveiled John Swinney, the deputy first minister, as his big eve-of-poll endorsement in the SNP leadership race....
...According to Eurostat, stated prices by producers in the common currency zone rose 1.1 per cent in December, a reverse of November’s 1 per cent fall....
...UK, shadow defence secretary John Healey speaks on the Labour party’s vision for defence and security at an event in London UK, parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee questions BBC chair...
...Further action has been planned by the nurses union and airport staff....
...Nationwide said a drop of 1.4 per cent in November came as rising borrowing costs weighed on sentiment. Perhaps coming to the rescue, John Lewis is to link with Abrdn to build homes for rent....
...European businesses are urging China to open up, while Foxconn has offered $1,400 payouts to quell protests at its iPhone plant....
...Instead, it argues, “ensuring Britain has enough people ready to work as nurses and teachers should be seen as what it is: a challenge for policy”....
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