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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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Quality of care

CQC found to be ‘not fit for purpose’

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is “not fit for purpose” and its safety ratings can not be trusted, Wes Streeting, Secretary of … Read more

Categories Management, Quality of care, Safety Tags Care quality commission, CQC, management, patient safety, quality of care

Action on social conditions needed to improve health inequalities

Tackling poverty and its negative effects on health should be as high a priority as addressing the NHS waiting lists, … Read more

Categories Public Health, Quality of care, Underfunded Tags Academic reports, health inequality, poverty, Public Health

Doubling of average waits for critical stroke treatments

HSJ has reported that the national performance against key measures collected by the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme has plummeted, … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags bed shortage, stroke, treatment delays

Health inequalities continue for people with learning difficulties or autism

People with learning difficulties and those with autism are not receiving the same standard of healthcare as the general population … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Safety Tags access, autism, health inequality, learning difficulties, quality of care

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

Two maternity services downgraded to inadequate by CQC

Maternity services at University Hospital North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital have been downgraded from “good” to “inadequate” in Care … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Safety, Staffing Tags CQC, downgrading, inadequate, maternity services, patient safety

Alarm raised at decline in women’s maternity experiences in England

The Care Quality Commission has sounded the alarm over a “concerning decline” in women’s experiences with maternity services. Fewer women … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Quality of care, Safety Tags CQC, maternity, quality of care, safety

CQC – Care Quality Report 2021/22

The report from the CQC released in October 2022, is that the health and care system is in gridlock and … Read more

Categories Quality of care, GPs, Hospitals, Integrated care, Management, Safety, Staffing Tags Academic reports, CQC, quality of care, safety, state of care

Study finds over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity

A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found there were 334,327 excess deaths beyond the … Read more

Categories Public Health, Community Care, Quality of care, Underfunded Tags austerity, community care, excess deaths, Public Health

More questions than answers on virtual wards

With ‘virtual wards’ being the latest big idea for NHS England to square the circle of trying to expand capacity … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Quality of care, Social Care, Staffing Tags digital health, hospitals, integrated care, social care, virtual wards
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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