Patient groups and the main health union, Unison, claim that the American- style system, which classes some calls as more urgent than others, discriminates against those with a poor grasp of language. It also assumes, they argue, that thepublic can tell the difference between a drunk in a stupor and a diabetic in a coma.
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In the Express on Sunday she writes that when people “compare the records of Blair and Major, Blair comes across better”. She predicts “a bloodbath in the Tory party” after 1 May.With just four days to go, Mr Major was under pressure to make a last- ditch visit to Brussels campaign to stress his opposition [...]

Lelei Lelaulu, a genial Samoan on the team, says: “We may not get everything, but we will get a hell of a lot of it.”. Singing for your supper has never been so profitable. The after- dinner speaking circuit has become a lucrative business for those who can be relied on to deliver wit and [...]

Two hundred officers stood by to prevent protesters reaching the home of Professor Colin Blakemore, president elect of the British Society For the Advancement of Science and Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford University.
The demonstration marked the culmination of a week of protest by animal rights supporters opposed to vivisection. Earlier, about 20 demonstrators had [...]

Profits, which were pounds 46m in 1994, fell to pounds 30m in 1995 and, despite the recovery in sales, stayed the same in 1996.Even more significant is the performance of Really Useful Group, the subsidiary that manages his musicals. In 1994, its profits were pounds 35.4m, in 1995 they were down to pounds 26.1m and [...]

But if you want to buy her, whether it’s the portrait where her startlingly youthful blue eyes match her sweater, or the one where she looks all of her 96 years, there is a catch. You’ll have to buy the whole family – and his friends, and his housekeeper, and her daughter – at a [...]