NHS to receive £160m to tackle backlog of care built up during Covid
The Guardian reports that a new £160m NHS initiative has been launched to allow tens of thousands of patients to … Read more
Funding
Urgent action needed for post-pandemic recovery
A new analysis shows that the NHS will be unable to get to grips with post-pandemic health challenges or make … Read more
Urgent plan needed to end NHS staff shortages now
Unions and other groups representing most of the NHS’s 1.4 million-strong workforce, including the Royal College of Nursing, British Medical … Read more
Fantasy and denial in under-funded NHS
Following a disastrous pandemic that has drastically cut back the capacity of NHS acute hospitals and piled added pressures and … Read more
“Whatever it takes”?
The inadequate support for the NHS and social care contained in last week’s business-focused Budget – coming as it does against a … Read more
Budget letdown: NHS faces record waiting lists and staff “exodus”
There was no significant new money for the NHS in Rishi Sunak’s first budget of 2021, with an extra £1.6 … Read more
Rachel Clarke: Now we health workers know how empty Boris Johnson’s ‘clap for heroes’ really was
When the NHS saved his life last April, Boris Johnson could not have reacted more fulsomely on social media. “Our … Read more
Vanishing front line beds pose threat to NHS future
England’s acute hospitals have lost over 5,600 front line beds – an overall reduction of more than one in twenty … Read more
Steep capital spending rise still falls £1bn short of NHS ask
The government’s spending review indicates that the health service’s capital budget is to increase by almost a third on its … Read more
Billions spent on NHS IT could leave most vulnerable stranded
A first glance NHS policy statements at local and national level could give the impression that services are being transformed … Read more