by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2023 | Briefing
UNIVERSAL CREDIT payments for single people over 25 are falling £890 a month short of the cost of living because rates are not benchmarked to a meaningful assessment of need, according to new analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF). This is despite the 10.1 per...
by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2023 | Briefing
THE Church of Scotland has been instructed to prepare a statement of acknowledgment and apology for its involvement with and connection to historic chattel slavery. The General Assembly of the Kirk decided that the exercise should be done in consultation with the...
by Agency Reporter | May 26, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT has announced that patients in England will be able to use the NHS App to choose where they are treated after a referral from their GP. Commenting on the announcement, Dr Kieran Sharrock, acting chair of the BMA England GP committee, said: “There...
by Staff Writer | May 26, 2023 | Briefing
AN ESTIMATED 10 million people in England regularly exceed the Chief Medical Officers’ low-risk drinking guidelines, including 1.7 million who drink at higher risk and around 600,000 who are dependent on alcohol. In a report published on 24 May, the UK...
by Agency Reporter | May 25, 2023 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID has warned the UK Government’s efforts to tackle the hunger crisis in East Africa “amount to gross negligence”, following the announcement the UK will provide just £143 million in humanitarian aid this year. The Minister for Development and Africa,...
by Staff Writer | May 25, 2023 | Briefing
THE NUMBER of nurses, midwives and nursing associates registered to practise in the UK has grown to a record total of 788,638. This means the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register is now equivalent to 1.2 per cent of the estimated UK population. Underlying...
