A row has erupted between a senior doctor and Jeremy Hunt over problems with emergency care. Dr Laurence Buckman, the GP chair of the British Medical Association, accused the Health Secretary of a "childishly superficial and misleading” analysis by blaming the 2004 GP contract for issues with out-of-hours care. Shadow H...
Quality of care is not given appropriate priority, according to three-quarters of sen...
Senior NHS managers yesterday told MPs the growing pressure on A&E departments was pu...
Sir David Nicholson is to stand down as NHS England chief executive next March, he an...
The increasing demand on A&E services is "unsustainable", Jeremy Hunt has warned, as ...
Jeremy Hunt said the GP contract, agreed in 2004, was “fundamentally flawed” because it meant doctors were not responsible for out-of-hours care. “The current GP ...
Andy Burnham accused Jeremy Hunt of attempting to "score political points" over the crisis in A&E, and called on the Health Secretary to "accept responsibility". ...
Laurence Buckman attacked Jeremy Hunt’s blaming of GPs for the pressure on A instead it’s been a dreadful mistake.” GPs Contract He flatly denied the pressure on...
GMB press release Lack of A&E capacity at London hospitals diverts ambulances putting lives at risk says GMB. GMB has identified a large number of occasions whe...
IFS and Nuffield Trust press release Over the first decade of the 2000s, rapid growth in public health spending was matched by a slowdown in the growth of priva...
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