#nhs-costs

#nhs-costs

Until now, children have only been entitled to compensation for lost earnings pay missed out on by not being able to work for the years they are expected to live. But the court, ruling on the case of a child who sustained a brain injury at birth in 2015, found that compensation should take into account the full working life she would have had if she had not been harmed at birth.

A world-beating deal, boasts the science minister, Patrick Vallance. It paves the way for the UK to become a global hub for life sciences, claims the business secretary, Peter Kyle, with the government press release adding: Tens of thousands of NHS patients will benefit. Presented with such triumph, His Majesty's press is up on its hindlegs. Happy pills ran a laudatory editorial in the Times, while the Daily Mail sportingly thanked Donald Trump for his US lifeline for UK pharma. Britain 1, America 0!