Patients as guests, payment by results ... death-knell of the NHS?
In the wards and theatres of the NHS hospitals in Peterborough there is no sense of the liberation that yesterday's award of foundation status was meant to bring.
Docto...
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Coping with co-payments
Gordon Brown's budget on Wednesday will be intended to show how sound management of the public finances leaves the government in a strong position. But the recent rapid e...
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OFT calls for fairer interest payments
Banks should pay interest to customers while they process cheques and electronic payments, the Office of Fair Trading said today.
As part of a number of proposals for k...
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Contractors complain of late payments
The government will be asked this morning to exclude Jarvis from any future private finance initiative contracts on the grounds of its allegedly poor record on payments t...
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Managers ready to defer payment
The Leeds players may have turned their noses up at the club in their hour of need - but former managers Peter Reid and David O'Leary are willing to help by deferring pay...
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Energy suppliers criticised for slow payment of refunds
Thousands of consumers have had to wait months or even years to get money back from their energy supplier, said the industry's consumer watchdog today.
Energywatch says ...
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How Barclaycard moved the payment goalposts and landed us with an overdraft
My wife and I manage our finances and cashflow very carefully, but a computer error by Barclaycard has caused us to go into the red and incur undeserved overdraft charges...
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We don't like the payment hierarchy
Under the spotlight this week is the "payment hierarchy" practice followed by most credit card providers.
The type of debt you have on your credit card will vary and wh...
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Government called to account over benefit payment changes
A Department of Trade and Industry committee today lambasted the government over the way it has dealt with the move towards electronic payments of post office benefits, s...
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Real IRA trial told of ?750,000 spy payment
The FBI and MI5 paid an American truck company boss $1.25m (£750,000) to spy on dissident Irish republican terrorists, the trial of the alleged Real IRA leader, Mich...
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