Government has proposed a new plan to provide aids to 5 countries. This would help to improve the poverty level in these 5 countries. Summary of the important events are as follows:
Aid Budget would be more focused to reduce poverty
A plan has been proposed by the government to discontinue the direct development aid to 16 countries however, some countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh would be given more aids and these aids will be more focused to improve the livings of the poor. One reason for this change in approach is that large portion of UK’s aid budget is not spent in the right way.
The British Government would stop giving aids to 16 countries which includes countries like China, Vietnam, Iraq, Kosovo, Lesotho, Moldova, Angola, Bosnia, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burundi, Indonesia, Serbia and Russia. However, budget of 5 countries has been proposed to substantially increase. These 5 countries are Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan.
As the government wants more transparency and accountability so that the purpose of these aids would be achieved and these funds would provide better results. According to this new plan, 30% of the UK aid would be given to war-torn and unstable countries by 2014. According to government this new approach would reduce the poverty level in these nations and it would also help in reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Insurers set for sex discrimination ruling
The cost of car insurance for young women could be increased. It will be decided by the European Court of Justice that whether this act is a kind of sex discrimination or not and if it is then it should be prohibited.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has proposed that the average increase in cost of young women could be in the range of 25% to 50%. However, according to the estimation of a research published previous year men under the age of 25 were expected a 10% reduction in premiums on average.
Mile Williams, a renowned insurance broker said, “It's entirely certain that women's premiums will go up. I don't think there's any chance whatsoever that men's premiums will come down, And the reason for that is that men have more accidents and when they have accidents they're more expensive."
BMA has claimed Government Health reform plans as unethical
British Medical Association (BMA) has warned the government about the NHS reform programme that it is highly unethical. According to the Health Minister, Paul Burstow this criticism was a gross distortion of government proposals.
Dr. Laurence Buckman has claimed that this bonus system could distort the trust between the doctors and patients.
According to him, "We don't understand what the Quality Premium means. We don't understand where it will come from. We rather fear it will come out of our pay and be paid back to us if we do certain things. It appears that what we might actually be asked to do is to save money and if we save a certain amount of money we will receive some of our pay given back to us. That is something that is appallingly unethical. I don't believe that I should be saying to a patient 'you can't have treatment because that way I'll get paid'. I don't think any patient would sit down with me and have in their head the thought that I would only be being paid by withdrawing treatment from them. I'm not prepared to do that".
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