home
radio
Pray| Showing page 19 of 24 1... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | Last update: Wednesday 25th March |
| Gagging clauses which have prevented hundreds of NHS whistleblowers speaking out are to be outlawed. Departing staff will instead be given a new legal right to raise issues that could be in the public interest, such as patient safety, death rates and poor care. Last night Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt insisted that creating a culture of 'openness and transparency' across the NHS was vital to prevent a repeat of the Mid Staffordshire scandal, in which as many as 1,200 patients died. | |
| Work/Employment | Daily Mail 14 March 2013 |
| Half of today's children will live until the age of 103, meaning people will have to work for longer to support themselves, a major inquiry has concluded. The rapidly rising older population will have to learn to get by without relying on the help of young taxpayers, according to the report. The House of Lords study - Ready for Ageing? - reveals the number of people over 85 will more than double between 2010 and 2030. And one expert told the inquiry that any baby born after 2007 has a one in two chance of living past 100. But the number of people with three or more long-term health conditions will rise by 50 per cent between 2010 and 2018. | |
| Social Issues | Daily Mail 14 March 2013 |
| Early signs of autism can be detected in the brains of four-month-old infants using an advanced scanning technique. Currently the brain condition can be diagnosed only after the age of two by observing a child's behaviour. Researchers used near-infrared spectroscopy to study the brain activity of infants, a technique that relies on the way the brain absorbs light….The babies were tested as they watched videos of actions such as people playing peek-a-boo and listened to laughter and yawning or non-vocal sounds such as running water and toys rattling. About 600,000 people in the UK suffer from autism, which affects a person's ability to communicate and socialise. | |
| Health | Daily Telegraph 13 March 2013 |
| Primary schools are to receive more than £100 million of funding for intensive sports teaching. The funding deal, to be unveiled in the coming days by David Cameron, will effectively guarantee that children will continue to have access to specialist sports teaching at least once a week. Competitive sports will form the centrepiece of the lessons. Every primary school is to be given a sports grant that is based on its number of pupils….The funding is being provided from across government with the education, health and sport departments all contributing. It is seen as a key part of the London 2012 Olympic legacy and Lord Coe, who was chairman of the Games' organising committee, is understood to have been involved closely in drawing up the plans. | |
| Education | Daily Telegraph 13 March 2013 |
| “David Cameron was last night under pressure from Tory backbenchers to defy his Liberal Democratic coalition partners and press ahead with the abolition of the controversial Human Rights Act. The Prime Minister insisted there would be no “lurch to the right” in the wake of the Tories’ drubbing in the Eastleigh by-election, which saw the party beaten into third place behind the UK Independence Party. But after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling suggested the next Conservative general election manifesto would include a pledge to repeal the Human Rights Act, Mr Cameron faced calls from Tory MPs to take action immediately.” | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 4th March 2013 |
| “Foreign doctors who want to work for the NHS in England will have to prove they can speak English well enough to treat patients, the Government has confirmed. The new checks were announced after cases in which foreign doctors were said to have provided sub-standard care. Those coming to the UK from outside the EU already face strict language tests. But doctors from within the European Economic Area are said to have registered to work in the NHS without being asked if they can speak English properly.” | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 25th February 2013 |
| “George Osborne was facing renewed demands from the Tory rank-and-file for tax and spending cuts after Britain was stripped of its AAA credit rating. Ministers and senior party figures rallied round the Chancellor in the wake of the decision by agency Moody’s, predicting it will have little impact on Government borrowing costs. But backbenchers warned next month’s Budget was the “last chance saloon”, demanding cuts to corporation tax and capital gains.” | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 25th February 2013 |
| “Supermarkets must stop scouring the world for the cheapest food they can find and sell more British products that consumers want.National Farmers’ Union president Peter Kendall said there had been ‘real shock’ that consumers had been deceived over what they bought, when it emerged burgers and other meat products from supermarkets had been contaminated with horse meat.” | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel – 28th February 2013 |
| “Some children are coming to school with cold chips or just a packet of biscuits in their lunchbox, experts say. A survey of 250 school, youth and health staff working with children suggests many go without enough to eat during the school day. The Children’s Food Trust’s poll found 68.1 percent had seen a rise in the proportion of families struggling to feed their children in the past two years. Lunchboxes contain less fruit and more junk food. Of the staff working in schools, 47.5 percent said they had seen a change in the food in children’s lunchboxes as household budgets got tighter. One staff member said they had seen ‘poorer quality sandwich fillings, sometimes just margarine’. Another said there were ‘fewer processed items – more leftovers or store-cupboard items’. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 26th February 2013 |
| “George Osborne vowed yesterday that 2013 will be the year when the banking system is “reset”, with new powers to break up the banks if they do not follow rules to ring-fence risky operations from savers’ deposits. Outlining the Government’s Banking Reform Bill, which went to Parliament yesterday, the Chancellor told bankers in Bournemouth that there would be no more “too big to fail” and unveiled payment reforms to speed up the banking system. His comments look set to incur the wrath of the City after he pledged to introduce powers to “electrify the ring-fence” if lenders fail to split high street branch operations from the dealing floor.” | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 5th February 2013 |
| “Senior Conservatives are urging the prime minister to delay any parliamentary decision on gay marriage until after the next election. More than 20 current and former constituency chairmen have delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street. It warns of ‘significant damage to the Conservative Party in the run up to the 2015 election’ if the plans enter law. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill would enable same-sex couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies, where a religious institution had formally consented, in England and Wales. It would also allow couples who have previously entered into civil partnerships to convert their relationship into a marriage. Some 180 Conservative MPs are ready to defy the prime minister’s plan.” | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 4th February 2013 |
| “New research shows that 11 million English adults visit Church of England cathedrals every year, and surprising numbers of them are non-Christians and the non-religious. Nearly a fifth of those who call themselves non-religious said they had visited a cathedral in the last year (18%).” | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Inspire – February 2013 |
| “Britain’s four biggest accountancy firms created 79 tax avoidance schemes in the past three years while benefiting from multimillion-pound government contracts. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG structures almost a fifth of all tax schemes disclosed since 2009.” | |
| Money | The Times – 31st January 2013 |
| “Polish is now England’s second language after a decade of large-scale East European immigration. New figures from the 2011 census disclose the linguistic diversity of a nation in which there are hardly any areas without at least one hundred Polish speakers. The astonishing variety was revealed yesterday by the Office for National Statistics after a question about how well non-native English speakers could communicate in the language was included in the census for the first time.” | |
| Social Issues | The Times – 31st January 2013 |
| “Thousands of UK patients are missing out on life-saving heart treatments that are routine throughout the rest of Europe, a charity has warned today. Health experts have also noted “appalling” regional differences in the treatment of UK patients with heart rhythm disorders who are at risk of sudden cardiac death. The announcement from heart rhythm charity Arrhythmia Alliance comes as clinical experts publish a major new report into cardiac care which highlights the problem. Around 100,000 people in the UK die every year after suffering sudden cardiac arrest, which results from a heart rhythm disorder.” | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 30th January 2013 |
1... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Bookmark
Tell a friend
