More than 10,000 NHS staff have been made redundant in the past three financial years as a result of the government’s commissioning reforms, according to official figures. New information was published by the Department of Health on Tuesday in its final “people tracker” document, which collects workforce information on the reform transition. It also reveals … Continue reading
More than 25,000 National Health Service posts have been abolished in the past two years and more than 60,000 further jobs are at risk, according to the Royal College of Nursing. Government proposals to move care of many patients from acute hospitals to community settings are branded a “facade” by the nurses’ representative body in … Continue reading
The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, known commonly as the Beveridge Report was an influential document in the founding of the Welfare Statein the United Kingdom. It was chaired by William Beveridge, an economist, who identified five “Giant Evils” in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease, and went on to propose widespread reform to the … Continue reading