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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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Cuts to services

Sexual health clinics are on the austerity front line – and now STIs are surging

Just hours after the news broke that sexually transmitted infections have reached a 40-year high, another three clinics were shut down, this time … Read more

Categories Cuts to services Tags community health, cuts to services, postcode lottery, treatment delays, waiting times

Sure Start programme saved the NHS millions of pounds, study finds

Sure Start children’s centres delivered major health benefits for youngsters in the most deprived areas, reducing the number of people … Read more

Categories Cuts to services Tags children's health, Councils, cuts to services, Sure Start, underfunding

Patients directed to 111 or 999 as 13,000-patient practice cancels all appointments

A GP practice has cancelled all immediate and future appointments for its patients. Cleveland Surgery, in Gainsborough, which has a … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Cuts to services Tags cuts to services, GPs, urgent care

The full story on how practices are closing in record numbers

Surgery closures have risen almost eight-fold in six years. Léa Legraien asks whether moves to large-scale general practice can stem the … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Cuts to services Tags community health, cuts to services, GPs, primary care

District nurse numbers plummet leaving services under-resourced and unsafe

According to a new report district nursing is significantly under-resourced, with often unsafe staffing levels, which can lead to unsafe … Read more

Categories Staffing, Cuts to services Tags community health, cuts to services, district nurses, NHS staff, understaffing

NHS England loses 6,000 mental health nurses in 10 years

New figures show that the number of mental health nurses in England has slumped by more than a tenth over … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Mental Health, Staffing Tags community health, cuts to services, hospitals, mental health, NHS staff, nurses, understaffing

Community hospital to close in face of staff shortages

A major nursing shortage will mean that the City Community Hospital in Oxford will close temporarily at the end of … Read more

Categories Staffing, Cuts to services Tags cuts to services, hospitals, NHS staff, staff shortage, STP 44, understaffing

One in 10 GPs see twice as many patients as safe limit, survey finds

GPs are seeing up to 60 patients a day, double the number they consider safe, as services struggle with staff … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Cuts to services Tags community health, cuts to services, GPs

Theresa May warned her post-Brexit immigration strategy could close quarter of NHS services

NHS executives have described Theresa May’s post-Brexit immigration strategy as the “most destructive policy proposal for NHS recruitment” amid fears … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Cuts to services, Staffing Tags Brexit, cuts to services, staff shortage, understaffing

GPs ability to ‘make do’ is not a solution to lack of funding, Hancock warned

GPs resilience and ability to ‘make do’ is not a sustainable solution to funding that does not meet their needs, … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Cuts to services Tags community health, cuts to services, GPs, Matt Hancock, social care
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE