Instead, it was a chin-scratchy working paper that asked the question: if the government invests in something - say, a road or a railway, or a new school building - how long does it generally take for that investment to come good? The answer, according to the repo...
“We need clear copyright laws that strike a fair balance between protecting the moral and economic interest of the authors but also, on the other hand, those of the public to access and those of the society at large to benefit of the technological improvements that AI can do,” Margoni s...
The Welsh government has total control over the NHS, education, the roads, agriculture — all the important sectors. They can spend the money how and where they like. On that basis you'd assume that Wales is a socialist paradise, wouldn't you? It's not. Welsh education and h...
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Does the above calculation in regards to saving rate apply to those on a defined benefits pension? I work in the NHS and our new 2015 Pension links our pension age to state pension age, therefore I cant take my pension without heavy actuarial reduction until 68. The NHS contribution is 20...
Cultural theory argues that “how” we govern and manage health services depends on what we think about the nature of government organizations and the legitimacy of their scope of action. The values that are implied by universal health coverage underlie choices about “how” health systems are ...
Does the Royal Family use private healthcare? The fact that they are regularly treated at private hospitals suggests that they do. The Princess of Wales was also at The London Clinic last month forabdominal surgery, from which she is now recovering at home....
Her agenda rests on boosting growth. Without it, she faces a choice between squeezing public services — Starmer has promised “no return to austerity” — putting up taxes or rewriting the government’s borrowing rules. Reeves says she does not want to do any of those things, but some fe...
But also, I think the moves to sterling mean that there’s a sort of sense that maybe the UK is a slightly riskier prospect now. The UK government doesn’t have that much headroom. And so there’s a concern that if something goes a bit wrong, they’ll have to come back to the ma...
In the 2010 general election, New Labour’s record on the NHS was not a political asset. It did not convince voters to give the government a fourth term in power nor was it a particularly powerful defensive line. In 2024, New Labour’s record was a political asset: Labour’s focus grou...