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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

Advert for GP access smartphone app banned by watchdog

Full story in The Guardian, 3 October 2018 A watchdog has banned adverts for a smartphone app that promises to … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags community health, digital health, GPs, Privatisation

Trust pulls out of contract as hundreds of cancer patients miss two week target

Full story in The HSJ, 1 October 2018 A foundation trust is to withdraw from a dermatology contract after hundreds of … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags dermatology, doctors, hospitals, NHS staff, understaffing

STP plans major stroke reconfiguration

Full story in the HSJ, 1 October 2018 Norfolk and Waveney sustainability and transformation partnership is drawing up plans for … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care Tags hospitals, NHS reform, STP 22, stroke care

Over 750 practices across UK could close as GPs leave profession, warns RCGP

Full story in Pulse, 28 September 2018 Over 750 practices could close within the next five years because they are … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags community health, GPs, primary care, understaffing

Child mental health services ‘not fit for purpose’, says top psychiatrist

Full story in Pulse, 24 September 2018 Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) services across England are so overstretched … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags CAMHS, children's health, mental health, postcode lottery, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, waiting times

Health visitors struggling with ‘dangerously high’ caseloads

Full story in The Guardian, 23 September 2018 Health visitors are struggling to care for families properly because they have … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Staffing Tags children's health, community health, cuts to services, health visitors, Public Health, understaffing

Mental health patients sent 300 miles from home due to lack of beds

Full story in The Guardian, 17 September 2018 Patients with serious mental health problems are being sent more than 300 … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags community health, cuts to services, mental health, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing

CCG to tender billion pound community services contract

Full story in HSJ, 17 September 2018 A community services contract, worth £1.7bn, is set to be procured by commissioners … Read more

Categories National STP, Quality of care Tags CCGs, community health, STP 39

Ambulance trust to send occupied vehicles to new emergency calls

Full story in The Guardian, 16 September 2018 A struggling ambulance trust hopes to improve response times by sending ambulances … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, safety, staff shortage, treatment delays

NHS mental health crisis worsens as 2,000 staff quit per month

Full story in The Guardian, 15 September 2018 Thousands of nurses, therapists and psychiatrists are quitting NHS mental health services, … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Staffing Tags doctors, mental health, NHS staff, nurses, treatment delays, understaffing
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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