New reports have revealed that UK's health service, the NHS trust is paying £47,000 a month to a temporary finance director.
As per the NHS target, 95% people suspected with cancer should have a meeting with a specialist within two weeks. But as per the figures by the NHS England, it has been unveiled that there are thousands of people who are not being referred to specialists in the above mentioned timeframe.
Pressure on accident and emergency units in hospitals is on the rise. Seeing the scenario, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has decided to intervene and sort out the situation a bit.
The Health Secretary has given a go-ahead to the plans of closure of acute mental health beds at Medway Maritime Hospital. With the closure of the Gillingham hospital's A Block, patients will now have to be sent to Little Brook Hospital, Dartford or Priority House, Maidstone.
The Mid Staffordshire crisis has been the worst that has ever taken place in the history of NHS. The scandal has equally shaken the government, which is busy in coming with profound measures, so that the incident does not get repeated.
Mid Staffordshire Hospital scandal was the biggest in the history of the NHS. To ensure that the incident does not repeat, a new law has been passed.
As per which, doctors, nurses and NHS managers will be sentenced to five-year imprisonment if they are found mistreating or neglecting patients willfully.
Health regulators have criticized Jeremy Hunt for cutting down the number of NHS walk-in centers. Since 2010, one in every four centers was terminated, even with a hit by patients.
Today, the Government will make a petition against the decision of High Court regarding the verdict to cut down the facilities at a hospital. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had to face defeat when the judge of High Court dubbed the activity of downgrading the A&E and maternity services at Lewisham Hospital in south east London as `unlawful'.
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