General practitioners, operating in consortia under an independent commissioning board, are to take charge of 70 per cent of the National Health Service budget by 2013, with the abolition of all England’s ten strategic health authorities and the 152 primary care trusts, according to a White Paper.
General practitioners, operating in consortia under an independent commissioning board, are to take charge of 70 per cent of the National Health Service budget by 2013, with the abolition of all England’s ten strategic health authorities and the 152 primary care trusts, according to a White Paper. The annual rate of inflation measured by the Consumer Prices Index fell to 3.2 per cent for June, from 3.4 per cent for May, and, as measured by the Retail Prices Index, to 5 per cent from 5.1. Unemployment fell a small amount to 7.8 per cent, and the percentage of workers in part-time jobs rose to 27, the highest since 1992. A cull of about 1,500 badgers in Pembrokeshire was halted by the Court of Appeal. A man with a metal detector found a pot containing more than 52,000 bronze coins dating from the third century ad in a field near Frome in Somerset. Lord Mandelson had extracts from his memoirs, The Third Man, serialised in the Times. He said that in October 2009, when Miss Harriet Harman urged in Cabinet that Labour’s campaign motto should be future, family and fairness, he, Mr Douglas Alexander and Mr Alistair Darling proposed instead the words futile, finished, and f***ed.
Three policemen were shot and wounded on the eve of the Orange Order marches in Northern Ireland; rioting, with petrol bombs and gunfire, continued on succeeding nights. ‘We saw the outpouring of recreational rioting with a sinister edge,’ said Mr Matt Baggott, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
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