howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Britain's poor 'will die before they retire' if pension reforms aren't matched by health improvements
Stark disparity in healthy life expectancy 'must be tackled' for pension age to be raised fairly
Thousands of Britain's poorest people "will be dead before they can retire" if sweeping pension reforms are not matched by urgent action on health inequalities between rich and poor, experts have said.
Plans to raise the basic state pension age to 70 for people currently in their twenties were laid out in the George Osborne's Autumn Statement this week. But with male life expectancy at birth as low as 66 in some of the most deprived parts of the country, public health experts have warned that a "one size fits all" pension age risks condemning many to a life without retirement.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Britain's poor 'will die before they retire' if pension reforms aren't matched by health improvements
Stark disparity in healthy life expectancy 'must be tackled' for pension age to be raised fairly
Thousands of Britain's poorest people "will be dead before they can retire" if sweeping pension reforms are not matched by urgent action on health inequalities between rich and poor, experts have said.
Plans to raise the basic state pension age to 70 for people currently in their twenties were laid out in the George Osborne's Autumn Statement this week. But with male life expectancy at birth as low as 66 in some of the most deprived parts of the country, public health experts have warned that a "one size fits all" pension age risks condemning many to a life without retirement.
Full story Independent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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that just cannot be right
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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it is kieth,thanks to the nasty party.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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if all that is true then there is no point in paying in to a pension scheme.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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that's what everybody is thinking howard.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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And then they will be bleating on about the lack of jobs for young people..........
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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exactly Lesley.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cash-poor NHS spends millions on art - despite cuts that led to thousands of job losses
As one trust boasts of being the biggest art gallery in town, campaigners object to art purchases worth up to £5m
The NHS is spending millions of pounds on art, despite cuts that have led to thousands of job losses, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Freedom of Information requests showed that 89 NHS trusts have spent nearly £2m on art since 2010, but the total is likely to be far higher, with 222 foundation and mental health trusts across the country.
Works include £8,000 steel giraffes at Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester, an £83,000 water feature at Salford Royal, and a £120,000 "ceiling artwork" at Barts and Royal London.
One trust boasted of being "the largest art gallery in Liverpool".
Art co-ordinators are employed by the NHS and paid up to £56,000 a year. NHS England said these are "usually qualified professionals with a broad knowledge of the arts". A nurse's starting salary is £21,000.
The NHS has been told to find £20bn in savings by 2015. The National Audit Office said in April that 10,000 staff had been laid off in the past three years. NHS campaigners have said it is "time to get real
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well with the NHS in it's present position spending dosh in this way doesn't appear to be right
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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do we know if any art co-ordinators have been laid off because of spending cuts?
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Well have to admit I agree with Reg , KS
& Howard on this one.
I'm going to have an unhealthy glass now I'm in shock.
Watts
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i will send you round the red flag as soon as i get it back paul. reg doesn't seem to have any use for it now since he teamed up with charlie.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Thanks Reg, I think we all guessed that the NHS bosses wasted money on non medical things this art fiasco just proves it.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Now on my second glass after that kind offer Howard.
Watty
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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paulw
see you can do it
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Hospital reforms 'rushed through'
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been urged to backtrack on plans to give greater powers to a trust special administrator
Doctors have accused ministers of rushing legislation that could allow changes to local hospitals to be forced through without proper consideration of patients' needs.
The British Medical Association (BMA) called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to backtrack on plans to give greater powers to a trust special administrator (TSA).
The changes form part of the Care Bill, which faces its first test in the Commons today, and follow the legal battle over the future of Lewisham Hospital in south-east London.
Ministers were defeated in the High Court over their attempt to cut A&E and maternity services at the hospital and had an appeal rejected in October.
The courts ruled the special administrator brought in to deal with problems at the neighbouring South London Healthcare NHS Trust did not have the power to suggest changes at other trusts.
But under amendments added to the Care Bill in the House of Lords, the BMA said TSAs will be empowered to also make changes in neighbouring trusts without consulting patients, clinicians, or the public.
Ministers have said the change is a clarification of the present policy but the BMA warned it would allow the Health Secretary to "force changes through the back door".
Dr Mark Porter, chair of the BMA Council, said: "With the NHS under financial strain there is immense pressure to make changes to the way services are delivered.
"We need a full debate on the best model for providing sustainable, high quality services, taking on board the views of clinicians, politicians and, crucially, the public.
"Most importantly any reconfiguration of services must be evidence-based and clinician-led, and not motivated by financial or political pressures. By rushing through these changes the Government is paving the way for current and future health secretaries to force changes through the back door without taking into consideration clinical or local needs.