Lack of beds key to A&E and ambulance delays
The crisis in A&E, and the failure of NHS trusts to make any headway in stemming or reducing the waiting … Read more
Hospitals
Charge for hospital stays to help fund NHS, says ex-health boss
Patients would be charged £8 a day when in hospital under proposals from a former health service boss to raise … Read more
‘Single biggest threat to patients’: 200,000 harmed by ambulance delays this year
Almost 200,000 patients have come to harm this year because of ambulance delays, according to estimates, as NHS leaders are forced to act on the “unprecedented … Read more
Minister misled MPs over ambulance crisis
The HSJ reports that Maria Caulfield, a health minister, incorrectly told the Commons on Wednesday that additional surge capacity for … Read more
Heatwave pushes NHS to ‘tipping point’ as hospitals and ambulance services declare black alert
A spike in Covid absences and the extended heatwave have left NHS hospitals and ambulance services struggling to cope. The … Read more
Warnings for coming winter as NHS capacity reduced
As a new strain of Covid-19 triggers yet another surge of hospital admissions, tying up more front line resources, emergency … Read more
NAO investigates as ‘new hospitals’ promise now certain to be broken
Amid the turmoil of the change of health secretary and chancellor there is another major question mark over the credibility … Read more
Crisis in the NHS caused by Tory underfunding not Covid, say BMA
The BMA has drawn up a major dossier that refutes Sajid Javid’s claims that the pressures on the NHS were … Read more
50,000 ‘target’ unlikely to ease nursing crisis
The RCN’s latest survey on workplace staffing levels in the NHS offers sobering evidence of how one of the Tories’ 2019 manifesto … Read more
Cuts to hospital discharge programme fuel crisis
NHS England’s response to the new austerity embodied in Rishi Sunak’s spending review from last autumn has been to slash … Read more