NHS

Cemlyn Foulkes looks at how much progress has been made since the publication of the Hutton Report and asks if individual steps have resulted in a reduction or increase in benefits.

Planned changes to NHS pensions could lead to an exodus of doctors retiring early and potential strike action, the British Medical Association warns.

Proposed reforms risk seriously destabilising the NHS pension scheme as high contributors leave or take early retirement, warns BMA pension committee chairman Andrew Dearden.

Councils have been given just six weeks to come up with a package of reforms to slash £900m from taxpayer contributions to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

The British Medical Association has lost its legal challenge on NHS widowers' pensions which could have cost the government more than £4bn.