Patients must “take greater responsibility for managing their own health”, says Hancock
"In the UK, we are spending £97bn of public money on treating disease and only £8bn preventing it across the...
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NHS told to reuse more medical equipment
"Patients should be able to return the countless pairs of perfectly good crutches sitting unused in the corner of living...
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Hancock fails to acknowledge NHS staff shortages
Hancock claims that there are "12,000 more nurses on our wards" and "14,000 more doctors".
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RCN boss to speak at Conservative Party Conference in a bid to ‘fix health and social care’
The college has launched a debate about how Britain’s two biggest political parties can fix health and social care without...
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Hancock’s promise of ‘£50m extra every single day’ for the NHS doesn’t add up
Twenty billion in additional funding over five years actually equates to around eleven million a day.
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Hospitals will receive £145m to ‘upgrade wards’ and ‘open extra beds’ in preparation for winter
The funding will be used to upgrade hospital wards and A&E departments and provide up to 900 new beds.
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Private firm wins £730m NHS Supply Chain contract
The Department for Health and Social Care claims the contract will save billions of pounds.
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Bad Brexit deal would ‘jeopardise safe patient care’, warns RCN
Brexit poses an immediate risk to the provision of safe and effective care and calls upon party leaders to help...
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