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"Treatment will use £16.9bn of budget as the number of diabetics rises from 3.8 million to 6.25 million by 2035"
"We are all swallowing an increasing number of pills, not just to treat disease but to cut the risk of getting a disease in the first place. Even in a time of austerity the NHS is spending nearly £12 billion on drugs and the total keeps rising."
"Projects for vulnerable, hard-to-reach teenagers and those at risk of being sexually exploited affected as cuts start to take hold"
The flagship fund set up by the Government to provide life-extending drugs for cancer sufferers is millions of pounds underspent while patients still face red tape in trying to get treatment.
Our survey found that the impact of cuts is as big a challenge for the NHS as implementing the Health and Social Care Act
"Gabriel Jaramillo became general manager of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in February. He has made the fund leaner, and hopes to win back donor confidence"
"A former NHS chief executive whose £450,000 pay-off was stopped after details were leaked has insisted she was the target of jealousy because "there are not many bankers in Cumbria". "
"The Self Care Campaign is telling people not to see their GP with minor ailments. As a doctor, take my advice – ignore this"
"The evidence is widespread: the profit motive delivers benefits for management consultants, not patients"
"Gordon Brown's flagship scheme for free home care for the elderly and infirm is heading for a crushing defeat today in the House of Lords.
Peers of all parties are lining up to condemn the plans – announced by the Prime Minister at last year's Labour conference – as rushed, under-funded and counterproductive. Mr Brown claimed that more than 400,000 people would benefit from this autumn, including 280,000 older and disabled adults who would be guaranteed free care."
"People seeing GPs for minor ailments such as coughs and colds are having a "catastrophic impact" on the NHS, leading healthcare professionals warned today.
Common treatable ailments now account for almost a fifth of GP appointments and are costing the health service an "astonishing" £2 billion annually, they said. "
"Healthy people with minor worries or complaints are putting too much strain on doctors and costing the NHS billions, leading health professionals have warned. "
"The worried well are having a 'catastrophic impact' on the NHS by bombarding GPs with visits for minor ailments such as coughs and colds, leading health professionals have warned.
Common treatable ailments now account for almost a fifth of GP appointments and are costing the health service an 'astonishing' £2billion every single year, according to the newly-formed Self Care Campaign group."
"Too many people are going to see their GP with minor problems, such as coughs and colds, a group of doctors and health campaigners says.
The report by the "Self-Care Campaign" says common ailments account for nearly one fifth of GPs' workload. "
"An independent inquiry into "appalling" levels of care at Stafford Hospital cost taxpayers £1.7m, it has emerged.
Patients were neglected by staff and management were too focused on targets, Robert Francis QC said in his 900-page report last month."
"The “worried well” are putting the NHS under unsustainable pressure by seeing their GPs for coughs, colds and other minor ailments that they should be treating themselves, leading health professionals warn today.
Common treatable ailments now account for almost a fifth of GP appointments and are costing the health service £2 billion annually, research suggests. Of the 57 million visits for a minor health problem, nearly half involved adults of working age rather than appointments for the elderly or children. "
"Minor ailments such as coughs and colds now account for nearly one fifth of GP workload"
"The number of people being excluded from social care in England will continue rising unless there is a major revamp of the system, experts warn.
The King's Fund think-tank pointed out rationing had already started with many councils only helping the most in need. "
"A stroke victim has rung up a hefty bill after being left unable to say 'no' to salesmen offering him mobile phone contracts.
David Stopher had ten different contracts for phones including six with the same company running at the same time - costing an estimated £2,700."
"Cancer patients at the end of their lives are losing out on benefit payments worth millions of pounds, according to a leading cancer charity.
Macmillan Cancer Support said about £8m in disability benefits went unclaimed by people diagnosed with terminal cancer in Scotland every year. "
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