A new RCN report, The Best Start: The Future of Children’s Health, shows how plummeting numbers of health visitors and … Read more
Mental health has long been regarded as a poor relation of the NHS. Years of under-investment means that people with … Read more
In recent years, NHS spending has been protected while other budgets, such as those for local government services and policing, … Read more
The number of hospital emergency admissions rose 2.8 per cent in 2016-17 to 4.3 million, with March this year seeing … Read more
Disruptions linked to a new care model for Bristol community mental health services “may well have been life threatening”, a … Read more
Privatisation has long been held up as a panacea to the NHS’s problems. The first ‘PFI’ (Private Finance Initiative) schemes … Read more
Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals that real-terms DH spending will increase by 12% over the period … Read more
The 1983 Mental Health Act would be replaced with new laws tackling “unnecessary detention” under Tory plans for England and … Read more
The claim: At least 6,700 mental health nurses and doctors have been cut from the NHS in England since 2010. … Read more
Nearly 94% of acute medics today reported regular problems in their units with having a full quota of staff, deepening … Read more