Children need to be taught how to treat illnesses themselves in an effort to ease GP workloads, NHS bosses say. Family doctors have longed complained about unnecessary paperwork and admin, as well as patients coming in for issues that could be dealt with either at home, or by a pharmacist. …
Read More »After Brexit-settling election, firms see business bounce
‘For three years we were stuck in a rut of indecisiveness,’ Bruderer U.K. managing director Adrian Haller, seen here on Jan. 24, 2020, said. ‘Once the election happened, there was a massive sigh of relief.’ HENRY NICHOLLS/Reuters At Bruderer U.K., a small firm selling metal-stamping machines from an industrial estate …
Read More »Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘reckless’ £1.2 trillion spending splurge revealed
Jeremy Corbyn would increase spending more than three times faster than Gordon Brown did, with Labour’s pledges amounting to an additional splurge of £1.2 trillion over five years, according to the Chancellor. The Conservatives will on Sunday publish a dossier setting out calculations that Sajid Javid said showed the “true cost of …
Read More »Promises, promises: the Labour and Tory spending pledges | Politics
The 2019 election will be the first in decades where both Labour and the Conservatives promise to turn on the public spending tap. The manifestos have yet to be released, but both have already made multibillion-pound pledges as the era of austerity comes to an end. Labour’s major spending pledges …
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