Cancer cash wasted on NHS salaries
Cancer care on the NHS lags behind that in many other developed countries because Labour wasted billions of pounds on PFI schemes, bureaucracy and inflated salaries for managers, the Health Secretary will say on Thursday.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
10:00PM GMT 23 Nov 2011
A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that, despite record spending on health care, cancer survival rates in Britain are worse than in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
Survival rates for breast cancer, prostate cancer and cervical cancer were below the average for the 34 developed countries in the study.
GURPREET’S WINNING DESIGN AIDS CHARITY
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas
3:37pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas. Profoundly disabled Gurpreet Juttla was a winner in a national Mencap competition and now the cards are being sold through the John Lewis Partnership to raise money for the charity.
Gurpreet is a pupil at Meadow Wood School in Coldharbour Lane which supports children who have a physical and neurological impairment. She also attends the Watford Mencap Children’s Centre at the Lemarie Centre in North Watford.
She has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London since she was born and has undergone a series of life saving operations including open heart surgery.
Carers to get money for short breaks
Tyne and Wear carers to get £1.4m to support short breaks
Carers living in Sunderland, Gateshead and South Tyneside are to receive more than £1.4m from the government.
The NHS South of Tyne and Wear money will fund carers’ short breaks, an initiative recognising them as fundamental to strong families and stable communities.
