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Norman Lamb threatens to quit as Nick Clegg’s adviser over NHS reforms
Changes proposed in the Health and Social Care Bill
The Health and Social Care Bill will see all 152 of England’s primary care trusts (PCTs) scrapped alongside 10 strategic health authorities.
GPs will be given around 80pc of the NHS budget – currently topping £100bn a year – to commission services for patients.
Grandads who Care
Grandad has been erased, or consigned to the potting shed, or shut away in the spare room, hrrumphing at the decline of radio programmes and daytime television.
Simple test to save 3,000 from bowel cancer every year
3,000 lives could be saved through bowel cancer test
Millions of people are to be allowed to take a simple test that could significantly lower their risk of developing bowel cancer.
As many as 3,000 lives could be saved every year and many diseases could be detected earlier, saving the NHS money, by the decision of the UK National Screening Committee to recommend the procedure for all those aged between 55 and 59.
Figures suggest that using a short one-off test for bowel cancer among middle-aged Britons could reduce incidence rates by 33 per cent and death rates by 43 per cent.
Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK’s chief executive, said: “Recent trial results of this method of detecting and removing polyps before they develop into bowel cancer can truly be called a breakthrough.
