Cutting hospital beds would be “lunacy,” warns senior emergency doctor
Plans to reduce bed capacity in some NHS hospitals are “lunacy” against the current backdrop of rising demand and high … Read more
NHS spending
Charges proposed for out-of-hours GP appointments in England
Patients could face paying their family doctors for out-of-hours appointments and minor procedures that fall outside the surgery’s contracted NHS … Read more
Is the NHS in crisis?
The chairman of the Leeds Health Scrutiny Board certainly thinks so. In a letter to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Coun … Read more
Thousands of patients could be forced into care homes due to CCG cuts
Thousands of patients could be forced into residential care as a result of clinical commissioning groups restricting funding for care … Read more
Combined health and social care organisation poses ‘financial risk’ to local authority
A pioneering NHS service that promised to save millions of pounds by creating and testing the first combined health and … Read more
More than 7,000 nurses could face axe under secret NHS plans
More than 7,000 nurse posts could be axed from NHS hospitals across the country despite a mounting Accident & Emergency crisis, … Read more
Private firms receive £2.3m to draw up STP plans
Private firms have been paid a ‘shocking’ £2.3m to draw up controversial plans which will cut health and social care … Read more
Crisis, what NHS crisis? Theresa May must stop this denial – Jan Filochowski
A few months into my first job in the NHS, some 38 years ago, I watched Prime Minister Jim Callaghan … Read more
Crisis means crisis, Theresa May – and it’s caused by underfunding and ignorance
Brexit means Brexit? Fair enough, Mrs May. I’ll tell you something else though. Crisis means crisis. There was widespread rebuttal … Read more
How the ‘humanitarian’ crisis in the NHS is paving the way for private healthcare
It has been a calamitous winter inside the NHS. Last week, three people tragically died at Worcestershire Royal hospital with … Read more