The article discusses the effort of the government to stretch the National Health Service (NHS) budget by welcoming the use of private care to supplement NHS care. Reports on Professor John Marshall's newly developed technique of retinal regeneration and the general practitioner's concern on open ...
A similar impact could be had on the NHS (which has an annual budget of £182 billion) by targeting smokers,heavy drinkersand those who take no exercise. Theeconomic impactcould in fact be far greater than my calculations suggest. For the savings predicted by my research do not account fo...
And - if you're taking these rules very literally, which everyone in Westminster seems to be doing - then the takeaway is that the chancellor really doesn't have much room left to spend in the coming budget. She only has £8.9bn extra leeway to borrow! Every sp...
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...
How much? If the "how" sounds clear, the "how much" (to what extent and to what budget) is a little less clear. In the three countries mentioned, there have been very few studies on the economic impact of their preventive healthcare programs. ...
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"As with so many other things with the NHS - there just isn't enough funding," he says. "I work privately and it's a business for me, but equally it is medicine and you do want people to benefit from healthcare and the advantages of modern healthcare. Why shouldn't they?" ...
Divide the figure you're left with by the number of weeks in each term. This should give your weekly student budget, i.e. how much you can spend on non-essentials such as nights out, etc. For example, if your income per term is £3,500 and your essentials add up to £2,000...
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...