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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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Diagnostics

Evidence casts doubt on new cancer blood test usage

There is mounting evidence that the Galleri blood test to detect multiple types of cancer from a single blood sample … Read more

Categories Diagnostics Tags BMJ, conflict of interest, diagnostics, Galleri blood test, Grail, NHS England

CQC – State of Care Report 2022/23

The Care Quality Commission has published its annual State of Care report for 2022/23. The report is an assessment of … Read more

Categories Community Care, Dentistry, Diagnostics, Emergency Care, GPs, Hospitals, Mental Health, Quality of care Tags CQC, dentists, GPs, hospitals, integrated care systems, patient safety, quality of care, social care, State of Care report

Fewer Community Diagnostic Centres open than government says: openDemocracy investigation

An investigation by openDemocracy has found that dozens of the government’s flagship community diagnostic centres said to be reducing record … Read more

Categories Diagnostics Tags commissioning, community diagnostic centres, diagnostics, openDemocracy

Leamington ‘megalab’ faces closure

The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa, which opened in the summer of 2021 at a cost of up to £1billion and … Read more

Categories Diagnostics, Infrastructure problems Tags coronavirus, diagnostics, Rosalind Franklin Laboratory

How can new diagnostics hubs cope with staff shortages?

Nineteen more locations have been announced for Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) by the Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay, which takes … Read more

Categories Diagnostics, Community Care, Infrastructure problems Tags CDC, community diagnostic centres, diagnostics, staff shortage

Longest diagnostic waits at highest level since covid lockdown

NHS England data for September shows 12.4 per cent of the 1.6 million awaiting a diagnostic test had been on … Read more

Categories Diagnostics, Treatment delays Tags diagnostics, oncology, radiology, treatment delays, waiting lists

Now for the bad news as cancer care hits ‘worst ever’ performance

Barely had the BBC headlines trumpeting the achievement of virtually eliminating 2-year waits for NHS treatment in England faded from TV and … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Diagnostics Tags cancer targets, cancer treatment, diagnostics, oncology, waiting lists

OpenDemocracy reveal that most of Javid’s ‘69 new NHS centres’ may not actually exist

Sajid Javid told Parliament on 8 February that scores of “new community diagnostic centres” had “already opened across England in convenient places … Read more

Categories Long-term plan, Community Care, Diagnostics, Hospitals Tags community health, community hubs, diagnostics, NHS England, Sajid Javid

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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