Nicola Smith
Free fruit for children in Glasgow’s primary schools is reportedly at risk of being cut.
Cuts Watch: Health — Page 2
-
Nicola Smith
-
Richard Exell
Last night’s rumours that NHS Direct is to be abolished have been confirmed by the government. The service is to be replaced within 3 years by a national phone service (using the non emergency 1-1-1 number) based on the pilot project in the North East.
-
Nicola Smith
In a sign of job losses to come across the NHS, 500 posts are to be lost in North East over the next eight months.
-
Nicola Smith
The Department of Health has announced the abolition of several arms length bodies, including the Alcohol Education and Research Council, National Patient Safety Agency and the Appointments Commission.
-
Richard Exell
The latest monthly NHS employment figures show that the number of staff fell by 0.3% between March and April. There were similar falls for the workforce measured in terms of numbers of roles and full time equivalents. Even more significant than the fall in itself is the likelihood that it marks the start of a new trend.
-
Richard Exell
The day after the Prime Minister launched his Big Society in Liverpool it emerged that the City’s Primary Care Trust has written to its employees, offering them a “mutually agreed leaver’s scheme”.
-
Nicola Smith
A Thousand Cuts has reported on cuts to playgrounds and a specialist child poverty support service in Wandsworth.
-
Nicola Smith
The Royal College of Nursing have reported that they are aware of almost 10,000 NHS posts that have been lost through recruitment freezes, redundancies and people not replaced when they retire, or which face cuts in the future.
-
Richard Exell
The British Medical Association has released the results of a survey that shows that health cuts are already a reality.
-
Richard Exell
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is very likely to cut 500 jobs – including 170 nurses – over the next financial year and a further 200 over the following two years.
