Tuesday, 06 November 2012 09:48
'The work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith's longest-serving adviser is being paid by a thinktank that he set up and which lobbies their department.
Duncan Smith set up the Centre for Social Justice in 2004 as a rightwing research and lobby group focusing on poverty as he rebuilt his political career after being ousted as party leader the previous year, but cut active ties with the thinktank when he rejoined government in 2010.
His policy special adviser, Philippa Stroud, is being paid an income by the CSJ to be co-chair of its board of advisers.'
Tuesday, 06 November 2012 09:45
'A senior cancer specialist today condemned the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway as a corrupt and scandalous system used to free hospital beds of the old and sick.
Professor Mark Glaser said the pathway – in use across the NHS as a way to ease the suffering of the dying – is employed by Health Service managers to clear bed space and to achieve targets that bring more money to their hospitals.
The professor, who treated former Labour Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam during her last illness, said practices in British hospitals are ‘morally bad medicine’ and that he would personally ‘never be treated in a hospital in England’.'
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