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Phil Hammond hammers the Health Secretary on Question Time

October 14, 2011   Carers, hospital

This is why no-one trusts you, doctor tells Lansley

Posted by Samira Shackle – 14 October 2011 15:14

Dr Phil Hammond hammers the Health Secretary on Question Time.

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Dr Phil Hammond, the comedian and GP, told Andrew Lansley exactly what he thinks of his health reforms in a heated exchange on last night’s Question Time. “It’s absolutely impossible to understand it, it is unreadable, there’s no narrative, there’s no convincing story,” he says, as the Health Secretary mumbles.

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Scheme is the first of its kind in the UK gives choice to terminally ill

October 14, 2011   Cancer, Carers, Scotland

More terminally-ill patients have chance to die at home

By SUE GYFORD
Published on Friday 14 October 2011 12:05

MORE terminally-ill patients are to have the opportunity to die at home thanks to a new scheme aimed at speeding up their discharge from hospital.

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Good news for women re state pension

October 13, 2011   Carers

No women will face two year increase in state pension age

13/10/2011

 

Women who would have seen a two year increase to their state pension age will have their wait reduced to 18 months Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has announced today. The Pensions Bill currently going through Parliament will be amended from the current timetable to cap the increase at a maximum of 18 months.

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