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...The dials on mental health, chronic pain, obesity and inequality are all going in the wrong direction, leaving the NHS to pick up the pieces....
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...However, David Rowland, chief executive of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans were based on a “series of misunderstandings about the role the private sector...
...“We will set out a full implementation plan following careful consideration of this final report and its recommendations,” said NHS England....
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...Hunt also laid out an extra £3.4bn of spending over the next five years on a new NHS productivity plan aimed principally at ramping up digitisation and automation....
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...Cuban is targeting the 38 per cent of private sector employers who self-insure at least one of their health plans....
...There’s a lot of awareness days to keep up with but mental health is worth our time. It needs to be at the centre of our thinking on employee welfare. Employers must always be on the lookout for signs....
...The RCN union warned in a letter to the health secretary on Thursday that the drop was a “direct threat” to patient safety and could make the ambitions set out in the NHS long-term workforce plan unattainable...
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...University’s National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neuroscience....
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...“Health security, economic security and even national security are imperilled when infectious diseases spin out of control.”...
...The Boston-based company struck a deal with the Kenyan government a year ago to invest about $200mn in a facility that would produce up to 500mn vaccine shots a year....
...Aviva, one of the largest providers of health insurance in the UK, reported that its “protection and health” premium sales were up 23 per cent in the third quarter of last year compared with the same period...
...“The public have been way ahead of politicians for years and we are now catching up,” said MSP Liam McArthur, who has introduced a bill on the issue in the Scottish Parliament....
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