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By politics.co.uk staff The “haphazard” manner in which the government is introducing cuts to the health service could jeopardise care, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The comments came from BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum at the start of the group’s annual conference. A poll of 300 branches yielded only 92 responses, the group… Read more »
By Ian Dunt A fresh attack on disability benefits from George Osborne has sparked signs of tensions with the Tories’ Lib Dem coalition partners. The chancellor stressed that rules surrounding incapacity benefit and its successor, the employment and support allowance, needed to be tightened up, as did housing benefit. Housing benefit has already been mentioned… Read more »
