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Health Insurance :Nuffield Trust Report on Post-Devolution NHS

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:54:32 +0000

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This is an Health Insurance Blog designed to help the consumer navigate the often difficult process of purchasing health insurance. It also provides detailed information on what to ask an agent when choosing a health insurance plan as well as detailed information on how to avoid insurance fraud and insurance scams. This is all over the news today, but just incase you have missed it The Nuffield Trust has published it's report into the NHS post-devolution. The principal headline is that Scotland is performing less efficiently than England despite high levels of investment and the most

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This is all over the news today, but just incase you have missed it The Nuffield Trust has published it's report into the NHS post-devolution. The principal headline is that Scotland is performing less efficiently than England despite high levels of investment and the most doctors and nurses.
You can download the report in full from the Nuffield Trust website.
There is also a powerpoint presentation available to download featuring some key facts and figures from the report (click here to open).

Nuffield report

We are interested in your thoughts on this report , particualrly if you work within the NHS in Scotland. Is the report out of date and inaccurate due to Scotlands unique geography and areas of deep seated poverty? (as Health spokeswomen Nicola Sturgeon has claimed).

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Best Health Insurance :UK Health Sytem Backed Up by Twitter #welovetheNHS

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:23:20 +0000

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This is an Health Insurance Blog designed to help the consumer navigate the often difficult process of purchasing health insurance. It also provides detailed information on what to ask an agent when choosing a health insurance plan as well as detailed information on how to avoid insurance fraud and insurance scams. The micro-blogging website Twitter crashed last week due to the sheer volume of report recieved for the trending topic #welovetheNHS. Trending topics are user generated subject tags, the most popular of which which appear on the search pages of the Twitter website.The #welovetheNHS

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The micro-blogging website Twitter crashed last week due to the sheer volume of report recieved for the trending topic #welovetheNHS. Trending topics are user generated subject tags, the most popular of which which appear on the search pages of the Twitter website.
The #welovetheNHS tag was set up as a reaction to percieved falsehoods that American Right-Wing thinktank The GOP had been spreading about the UK healthcare system. The tag recieved so much attention that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah felt compelled to respond.

#welovethenhs on Twitter

The UK health system has been under attack, with many failing to understand that here in the UK we have a choice.. You can use the NHS for free or opt to pay for private medical insurance if you can afford it.

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