Every year, billions of pounds is spent in the NHS. According to the NHS Confederation, planned expenditure for 2017/18 is £123.8bn. The NHS was launched in 1948 with the ideal that good healthcare should be available to all. However, with Britain set to leave the European Union in 2019, how will our emergency services, and healthcare overall, be affected? Many…
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S is for Start-Ups – If we leave the EU then we leave our small businesses high and dry
S is for #StartUps Our businesses and Essex-preneurs get help to bring their ideas to life. If we leave the EU then we leave our small businesses high and dry. Think we are making this up? Think again. Last year, the European Investment Fund (EIF), committed over £2bn to UK-based venture capital funds between 2011 and 2015. Essex is the UK’s…