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NHS booking online scheme delayed

The government’s scheme to allow patients to book NHS appointments online is a year behind schedule, it was admitted today. NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp revealed the length of the delay to the Commons public accounts committee -contradicting a statement made by the former health secretary John Reid in January that the system was only… Read more »

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Women’s pensions a ‘national scandal’

British women face a far poorer retirement than men, a government report finds today. Over two million women are currently not building up entitlement for a state pension, figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reveal, while others miss out through earning too little or spending time out of work looking after children… Read more »