Posted on Sunday, 6th June 2010 by admin

The Government will finally grant a long-awaited public inquiry into a hospital where up to 1,200 patients needlessly died. PM David Cameron has bowed to demands from relatives of those who died in the care of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. A full public inquiry could be announced as early as Wednesday and follows a [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 6th June 2010 by admin

Almost £37 million was paid out in bonuses to staff at quangos and in the NHS last year. The Liberal Democrats said that answers to Freedom of Information requests showed £36.969m was paid out to public sector bodies in the 2008-09 financial year. Of that, £26m was paid out in so-called “distinction awards” for senior [...]

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