Worries over East Lancashire Remploy sites
This will have concerns across the UK for other Remploy factories, what about the reconditioned computers they restore? More disabled people to lose their jobs! A disgrace!
By Sam Chadderton » Reporter
ALMOST 50 disabled workers could lose their jobs at a manufacturing firm, according to a union.
An independent report on the future of Remploy, which provides jobs for people with disabilities, has made a number of recommendations to help find disabled people work.
But the GMB union says that if implemented, it will mean there are no prospects of the 54 factories around the country surviving without public support.
Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
One in 10 NHS hospital beds should be removed in order to free up an extra £1billion to help dementia sufferers, leading politicians say.
7:00AM BST 12 Jul 2011
MPs and peers say that up to a quarter of beds are taken up with people who have degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, even though it is costly for taxpayers as well as traumatic for patients.
Long hospital waits ‘on the increase’
It is unfair to leave people waiting so long if they are in pain.
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Under the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to be seen in 18 weeks.
But there are currently 236,155 on the waiting list who have waited longer than that – a rise of 8.5% in a year, according to official data. Nearly half have waited more than six months.
