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Calderdale birdsong featured in new therapeutic recordings

The songs of moorland bird species have been recorded in the Calderdale area as part of a new campaign to provide their unique sounds to local care homes. The Moorland Chorus recording will be used as a therapeutic tool for those no longer able to easily access the uplands. Organised by the British Association for Shooting and… Read more »

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Deliver achievable clinical negligence reform without delay, says MDU

The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has published the report of its inquiry into NHS litigation reform. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) engaged closely with this inquiry, submitting written evidence. The MDU welcomes the publication of today’s report but cautioned against too much focus on fundamental and complex structural change, at… Read more »

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Health minister Lord Warner clarifies true cost of NHS IT programme
NHS computer system ‘to cost £20bn’

The government’s new IT system for the NHS is two years behind schedule and could cost up to £20 billion, Lord Warner has admitted. The health minister said that although the contracts to provide the new programme were to budget, about £6.2 billion, the cost of staff training, buying computer equipment on the ground and… Read more »