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Government apologises for 'offensive' NHS anti-smoking poster featuring Sikh man because tobacco is forbidden in the religion
2 days, 23 hours ago

Government apologises for 'offensive' NHS anti-smoking poster featuring Sikh man because tobacco is forbidden in the religion

Daily Mail  

The government have released an apology after launching an 'offensive' NHS poster featuring a Sikh man whilst urging the public to quit smoking. The poster featured a stock image of a Sikh man wearing a turban alongside the phrase: 'Make 2025 the year you quite smoking'. It is understood that although the The government have released an apology after launching …

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Wes Streeting claims pensioners will be 'better off' this winter - despite fears 4,000 could die after Labour cut fuel allowance
4 days, 17 hours ago

Wes Streeting claims pensioners will be 'better off' this winter - despite fears 4,000 could die after Labour cut fuel allowance

Daily Mail  

Wes Streeting yesterday claimed pensioners will be ‘better off’ this winter despite fears 4,000 could die after Labour cut their fuel allowance. Asked if the Department of Health and Social Care had done an impact assessment into potential deaths, Mr Streeting said: ‘Because of the choices that the Chancellor has made, particularly on protecting the state pension through the triple …

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每日一词 | 个人养老金制度 private pension scheme
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6 days, 17 hours ago

每日一词 | 个人养老金制度 private pension scheme

China Daily  

人力资源和社会保障部等五部门发布通知，自2024年12月15日起，将个人养老金制度从36个先行城市（地区）推开至全国。 China announced the expansion of a private pension scheme from 36 pilot cities and regions to the entire country, effective from December 15, 2024, according to a notice jointly issued by five government departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. 2024年11月22日，在甘肃省平凉市华亭市东华镇东华综合养老服务中心，一位老人在医务室用按摩椅按摩。图片来源：新华社 【知识点】 所谓个人养老金制度，就是个人自愿参加、市场化运营、国家政策支持的补充养老保险制度。我国的养老保障体系包括三部分：一是基本养老保险，是我们退休后生活的基本保障。二是企业年金和职业年金。三是个人养老金和商业养老。这是个人为提高自己老年生活品质提前做的准备，个人养老金和商业养老产品的不同之处是有政策支持，可以享受更多的税收优惠。目前，个人养老金每年的缴存上限是12000元。这部分钱转入个人养老金账户后，在第二年计算个人所得税的时候，是可以扣除的。同时还可通过购买相关金融产品获取收益。 2022年11月，个人养老金制度在36个城市（地区）先行实施，两年来，先行工作取得积极成效，制度总体运行平稳。2024年12月12日，人力资源和社会保障部等五部门发布《关于全面实施个人养老金制度的通知》，自12月15日起，将个人养老金制度推开至全国。这次推向全国，是我国个人养老金制度的进一步完善，也让更多的人能够有计划地为自己的养老做好规划。 通知进一步明确了相关支持政策，并就公众最为关注的投资产品、提前支取、风险管理等问题，作出了一系列调整。通知要求优化产品供给，在现有理财产品、储蓄存款、商业养老保险、公募基金等金融产品基础上，将国债纳入个人养老金产品范围，将特定养老储蓄、指数基金纳入个人养老金产品目录。通知还提出，鼓励金融机构研究开发符合长期养老需求的个人养老储蓄、中低波动型或绝对收益策略基金等产品。通知还增加了提前领取情形，除达到领取基本养老金年龄、完全丧失劳动能力、出国（境）定居等领取条件外，参加人患重大疾病、领取失业保险金达到一定条件或者正在领取最低生活保障金的，可以申请提前领取个人养老金。领取方式也将更加灵活。参加人可以选择按月、分次或者一次性领取个人养老金，并可进行变更。 【重要讲话】 实施积极应对人口老龄化国家战略，发展养老事业和养老产业，优化孤寡老人服务，推动实现全体老年人享有基本养老服务。 We will pursue a proactive national strategy in response …

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You need to care more about your son’s health. This urologist explains why
2 weeks, 6 days ago

You need to care more about your son’s health. This urologist explains why

CNN  

Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. Because so many parents are too embarrassed to talk about all those changes, too many boys get their information from the wrong places: friends, social media, free porn sites and internet-based adult films …

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Nine hospital trusts responsible for half of patients waiting the longest
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Nine hospital trusts responsible for half of patients waiting the longest

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This can be down to a variety of reasons, including high bed occupancy due …

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Care home tycoon threatens legal action over Reeves’s ‘devastating’ tax raid
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Care home tycoon threatens legal action over Reeves’s ‘devastating’ tax raid

The Telegraph  

Mr Kilgour said he had started drawing up plans to reduce investment across his string of care homes since Ms Reeves announced the tax changes at her maiden Budget last month. That is a real fear of mine.” Growth fears As well as pursuing legal action against the Government, Mr Kilgour is also preparing to write to allies of Health …

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Broadcaster bias is failing to hold Israel to account
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Broadcaster bias is failing to hold Israel to account

The Independent  

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Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by National Insurance hike, ministers warn
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by National Insurance hike, ministers warn

Daily Mail  

Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by the failure to exempt them from a national insurance rise, ministers have been warned. Chancellor Rachel Reeves was last night accused by leading industry figures of 'forgetting about care' in Labour's quest to revive the NHS Ms Reeves hiked NI contributions by 1.2p and reduced the salary threshold in order to …

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NHS wins record rise in funding in the Budget - but patients 'are unlikely to notice', say experts
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NHS wins record rise in funding in the Budget - but patients 'are unlikely to notice', say experts

Daily Mail  

The NHS won a record rise in funding in the Budget – but patients are unlikely to notice, say experts. The Budget tax hike rivals 1993's eyewatering revenue-raiser in the wake of Black Wednesday - and might be even bigger if measured at current prices rather than as a proportion of GDP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care …

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Budget contains broken promises which will hit working people, Sunak claims
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Budget contains broken promises which will hit working people, Sunak claims

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rishi Sunak has accused Rachel …

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NHS receives major Budget boost but ‘lacklustre’ social care settlement will hit councils, experts warn
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NHS receives major Budget boost but ‘lacklustre’ social care settlement will hit councils, experts warn

The Independent  

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Norovirus: World-first vaccine to combat the misery of winter vomiting bug on trial in Britain - and could cut the 'burden on the NHS'
2 months ago

Norovirus: World-first vaccine to combat the misery of winter vomiting bug on trial in Britain - and could cut the 'burden on the NHS'

Daily Mail  

A world-first vaccine for the vomiting bug norovirus is being trialled in the UK amid hope it could cut the 'burden on the NHS', the Health Secretary has said. Wes Streeting said the virus places the health service under 'huge strain' every winter and costs taxpayers around £100million a year UK Health Security Agency chiefs received 1,237 lab-confirmed reports of …

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No more consultations – it’s time to operate on the sickly NHS
2 months ago

No more consultations – it’s time to operate on the sickly NHS

The Independent  

Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, his health secretary, will today launch a “national conversation” about the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS, due next spring. However, in a round of Sunday broadcast interviews, Mr Streeting explained that the government wants to “engage” with the public, NHS staff and experts, who will be asked to submit ideas via a website. …

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We should value cleaners as much as our tradesmen
2 months, 4 weeks ago

We should value cleaners as much as our tradesmen

The Independent  

Many years ago, my husband insisted that we get a cleaner, though initially I resisted. Joan Cooper Abingdon Let justice be done Rachel Reeves’s determination to bring to account the corporate fraudsters who sought to exploit the Covid pandemic with dodgy PPI contracts and false business compensation claims will be welcome by voters – especially the families of its victims …

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The British people want their NHS to be fixed – not replaced
3 months, 1 week ago

The British people want their NHS to be fixed – not replaced

The Independent  

Reform or die.” Even by his own recent gloomy standards, Sir Keir Starmer’s stark warning to the NHS is a dramatic, headline-grabbing one. Fourteen years of misguided reorganisation, austerity, misallocation of limited public funds, and outdated technology and procedures have left the NHS “broken” – but, as Sir Keir adds, not “beaten”. But there will be no substantial extra funding …

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PM: Not possible to build an NHS for the future without fixing social care
3 months, 1 week ago

PM: Not possible to build an NHS for the future without fixing social care

The Independent  

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Lord Darzi review finds Tory austerity has left NHS in ‘critical condition’
3 months, 1 week ago

Lord Darzi review finds Tory austerity has left NHS in ‘critical condition’

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Two out of three of those shocks were choices …

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Column: I know what Trump was really talking about in his child care rant, and it’s even scarier than you thought
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: I know what Trump was really talking about in his child care rant, and it’s even scarier than you thought

LA Times  

Donald Trump launches into an incoherent rant about child care costs Thursday in response to a question from Reshma Saujani, top right, at the Economic Club of New York. Here’s how he launched into the topic at the Economic Club of New York, when asked by attendee Reshma Saujani, a Democratic children’s advocate, if he would commit to making child …

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This is the NHS’s MeToo moment – and Wes Streeting is well placed to reform it
3 months, 3 weeks ago

This is the NHS’s MeToo moment – and Wes Streeting is well placed to reform it

The Independent  

As is all-too-well known, the National Health Service is suffering from a number of comorbidities after some years of unprecedented pressures and neglect – and most of them are quite serious. The Covid pandemic is the most obvious contributory factor to long waiting times and patient frustrations, but the new health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has made it …

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Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector

The Independent  

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Social care: Labour has ‘failed another generation of families’ with cancellation of reforms, Dilnot says
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Social care: Labour has ‘failed another generation of families’ with cancellation of reforms, Dilnot says

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Labour government has “failed another generation of families” with the …

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Scrapping the social care cap is a disgrace that will come back to haunt this government
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Scrapping the social care cap is a disgrace that will come back to haunt this government

The Independent  

Here we go again. Andrew Dilnot, the economist who proposed the cap in 2011, told the BBC the decision is a “tragedy”, adding: “We’ve failed another generation of families.” It was another example of social care “being given too little attention, being ignored, being tossed aside”. Local authorities complained no preparatory work was underway for a complex scheme which would, …

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Wes Streeting pushes ahead with NHS puberty blockers clinical trial as high court rules ban lawful
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Wes Streeting pushes ahead with NHS puberty blockers clinical trial as high court rules ban lawful

The Independent  

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Starmer told to let tens of thousands of pensioners foot bill for social care
5 months ago

Starmer told to let tens of thousands of pensioners foot bill for social care

The Telegraph  

Labour has been urged to let tens of thousands of pensioners foot the bill for social care costs by delaying reforms, as councils face a £30bn funding blackhole. England’s largest councils have warned Sir Keir Starmer that without more money, reforms to prevent people from being forced to sell their homes to pay for care are “impossible”. But the County …

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