Category: News


Seeing same GP ‘improves patient health and cuts workload of doctors’


Seeing the same GP improves patients’ health, reduces doctors’ workloads and could free up millions of appointments, according to the largest study of its kind.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/23/seeing-same-gp-improves-patient-health-and-cuts-workload-of-doctors

 


Sir Lindsay Hoyle: Speaker accused of ‘party politics’ over Gaza vote


The Commons Speaker is facing accusations he played “party politics” by granting a vote on Labour’s Gaza ceasefire motion.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68366512

 


Businessman spared jail over catalogue of coercive behaviour


A BUSINESSMAN convicted of a catalogue of coercive and controlling behaviour towards his police officer wife spanning a period of five years in Inverclyde and elsewhere has been spared prison.

https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/24128273.businessman-spared-jail-catalogue-coercive-behaviour/


‘Bankrupt’ Birmingham reveals 21% council tax rise


Birmingham City Council has confirmed it will raise council tax by 21% over the next two years as part of £300m budget savings.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-68342493