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848 results found for '"Health services"' in Keywords.
The story of Child B (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Excerpt from interview with 10 year-old leukaemia sufferer, Jaymee Bowen (formerly known as Child B), who was refused a bone marrow transplant by Cambridge Health Authority. Following a financial donation...
London mental health services survey (1995)
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- Interview
Director of Research at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dr Paul Elliott on his survey into twelve mental health services in London, which found high occupancy levels and a high number of violent...
Nurses’ pay rise announced (1996)
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- Interview
Today the Government announced pay rises for nurses, doctors, and teachers. Nurses are to get a two percent rise. The General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Christine Hancock, is dismayed...
Nurses’ 2% pay rise (1996)
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- Interview
Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell defends the Government’s proposed pay rises for public service workers. He says that the two percent pay rise for nurses is just part of a package that has to be negotiated...
Prescription charges and health service wages increase (1996)
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- Interview
Doctors and dentists are to get twice as much as nurses in the Government’s public sector pay review, but their pay rise will be staggered, with half in April and half in December. And the news that...
Prescription charges and health service wages increase (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell defends the Government’s proposed rise in NHS prescription charges, claiming that it is only those able to pay who will feel the effect of the rises. In response to earlier...
Bed shortages in London (1996)
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- Interview; News report
Some of the London’s top hospitals are turning away urgent cases because of critical bed shortages. Surgeons at St George’s hospital in Tooting are now ignoring the Government’s guidelines on patient...
Long term care for the elderly (1996)
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- Interview
UK Prime Minister John Major has unveiled a new plan to help the elderly pay for long term care, at the Conservative conference in Harrogate. Labour’s social security spokesman Chris Smith says it’s...