Conservative Party HeadlinesThe BBC reports today that the Ambulance Service in Northern Ireland is to be forced to make efficiency cuts that will directly affect frontline services.
With a projected budget decrease of £1.5 million over the next three years the result, naturally, is that the Service has to cut the amount of time ambulances are available to take people to [...]
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The following article is by Steven Kinnear, member of the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland and a local hospital doctor.
The Tooke report is a damning indictment of the government’s botched plans for radically changing how doctors are trained. You’ve heard the phrase ‘confidence and ability aren’t always related’ well this was definitely the case when the [...]
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The Labour government continues to wreak havoc in the NHS and a local group of medics are expressing their concern at the so-called Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme introduced by the government here and across the UK.
Part of this programme was a new system for selecting junior doctors for specialist training within the NHS. The [...]
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The Conservatives have published their Top 10 Election Commitments for the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2007. As well as a focus on education there are clear commitments to prioritise NHS provision locally, reforming local government funding and focusing on greater community cohesiveness.
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