The procedure - which involves collecting a woman's eggs, freezing them and thawing them at a later stage so they can be used in fertility treatment - is not usually available on the NHS, unless you're having treatment that affects fertility, such as chemotherapy or gender reassignment. With...
When something is broken, the boldest reforms can often seem the most tempting. Some want to overhaul the NHS’s funding model, switching from a system funded by taxation to one based on social insurance, as in France or Germany. Others mull the case for much wider use of means-tested ch...
And how well you work together will have a big impact on how much profit you make! You can also look at the first handout on page 2 of your student pack if you need to remind yourselves what to do. Hold up the first page of the student pack to show them. Start stopwatch. After...
But the demands on his diary make it a rare event. Sadly, a special occasion Historically, it is very odd for Prime Ministers – or indeed anyone with an executive role – to spend much of their day attending to the needs of their own children. People weren’t heartless, they just ...
The railway always complained that it was very costly having to provide so much rolling stock and so many staff for a couple of peak hours in the morning and another couple of peak hours in the evening. It was that peak volume which the railways said justified the high fares. In an atte...
7. Humans may have been enjoying cacao, the substance used to make chocolate, for much longer than experts had thought. Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada have found that humans grew cacao trees and consumed cacao starting around 5, 300 years ago. The researchers foun...
To a ‘new world’ focussed on developing more and better intangible stuff from unlimited knowledge resources, much of it offered for free – one which seeks to improve our QoL (Quality of Living) At this juncture, productivity improvement efforts become even more important to both our SoL and...
They are also going to be proved wrong on this as on so much else about Brexit. WTO rules work fine, if the rest of the EU really does want to damage its valuable exports of agricultural produce and cars. Their more voluminous exports will attract far more tariff than our sales to ...
This matters — the NHS has a limited budget. There are many things we might want to spend money on, which is why we have the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) to weigh up the likely benefits of new treatments and decide which offer the best value for money. Woul...
right, because every government would love to say, well, look, we’ve done these policies. They pay for themselves because, you know, they transform the economic outlook and therefore we can spend much more and