内容摘要：Like the womb lining, the tissue builds up and bleeds every month, but with no way to escape the body the blood is trapped, leading to symptoms such as heavy periods, severe period pain and fatigue.

Like the womb lining, the tissue builds up and bleeds every month, but with no way to escape the body the blood is trapped, leading to symptoms such as heavy periods, severe period pain and fatigue.

It’s hard to see how that does not mean more countries on the continent spending more of their own cash.“Let’s not kid ourselves, Nato does deter Russia, and we have to make sure that happens,” said a defence source.

America’s role in our security is vital. But sources in government acknowledge that Europe, with conflict on its fringes, must play a vigorous financial part.Eager to be seen as the leader in Nato, the UK is taking steps to boost defence cooperation across the continent – leaders recently signed aDonald Trump’s return to the White House sets nerves jangling across the Atlantic about what it will mean for Nato, what it will mean for the US committment to support for Ukraine in terms of diplomacy and cold hard cash.

There is instinctive political unease here with his behaviour, his attitude to the law, convention, and the truth. But perhaps in the words of one source “it’s not a rule of law era, it’s a power era”.Before the Trump victory, there were already profound questions for our politicians about how they protect our interests.

The imperative to answer them is stronger now the unpredictable president is on his way back.

Perhaps the UK and the rest of Europe may need to display and pay for more of its own power to have a chance of getting the Trump White House on board.But GP surgeries, which operate mostly as business partnerships and deliver NHS care under government contracts, are not in the same position.

Social care is largely delivered through a patchwork of private companies, with local authorities subsidising the care of people with high needs and low assets.In addition, some publicly-funded healthcare is delivered by charities, while pharmacy businesses deliver services for the NHS under contract.

Marie Curie, which provides hospice care to terminally ill people through government contracts, says the NI hike will put its services under "further pressure".The charity signed an open letter, organised by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, which says the increase "will place another major strain on charities".