The Health and Social Care Committee has called the Secretary of State for Health to appear before it to explain his refusal to provide it with information on the Government’s review of NHS overseas visitor charging.
More than five million families spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF says in a new analysis of maternal health.
The report says a culture of tolerance to ill-treatment and even torture has developed in the last five years, and the situation has got worse, not better.
The British Medical Association is calling for urgent action to address the impact of charging rules for overseas patients, on both NHS staff and the patients themselves.
Developing countries have long struggled with the price of medicines. Today’s costs have rendered it a world-wide challenge, and it is the key topic of concern at a global medicines forum in South Africa, co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation.