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The proposals include plans to: Allow patients to communicate with their clinicians via an online system Give patients access to their Medical Records Maximise the use of Choose and Book, the online appointment booking system used by GPs to organise consultant meetings for patients Although the National Programme for Information Technology was not mentioned in […]
No decision about me without me The Government intends to create a ‘shared decision making’ environment in the National Health Service between patients and healthcare providers. Based on International evidence the Government believes that the changes will result in improved treatment, increased patient satisfaction and significant cost savings. Government proposals are based on three key […]
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said that “This site gives you the chance to tell us which laws and regulations you think we should get rid of. Your feedback will inform government policy and some of your proposals could end up making it into bills we bring before Parliament to change the law. We\’ve […]
Although there was widespread agreement from the medical community on the impact of the European Working Time Directive on medical training Sir John’s recommendations were called into question by a number of industry groups including the Royal College of Surgeons. In the report Sir John recommend that services needed to be revised so that Consultant […]
The Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Peter Carter, said that “Our figures expose the myth that front-line services will be protected. If this trend for cuts continues, the NHS will soon be straining at the seams. Local NHS organisations appear to be adopting a slash and burn approach to jobs, which is […]
The President of the British Chamber of Commerce, Neville Reyner, called for the Government to postpone the increase in National Insurance Contributions, additional Paternity Leave legislation and the Agency Workers Directive until 2014. He believes that the Government should look again at some of the legislation and used a phased approach to bring in the […]
The Coalition Government has issued an online invitation to the public to nominate the unnecessary laws and regulations they would like to see scrapped. High on any Contractors list will no doubt be the scrapping of Intermediaries Legislation, otherwise known as IR35. In a statement Nick Clegg said \”Too many of the business and voluntary […]
Background In the run up to the General Election the Conservative Government included in their election manifesto plans for an Immigration Cap that world ‘reduce net migration to the level of the 1990s – tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands’. Under the previous Labour Government inward migration had increased significantly driven mainly by economic […]
The Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Kevin Green, said that \”There were huge skills shortages before the recession and if the private sector is to grow rapidly out of recession, it will need skilled workers to do so. An artificial cap on immigration will affect business growth and delivery of core services […]