Lightning Review: Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services May 2016
This report by The Children’s Commissioner came to the following conclusions: — Access to CAMHS is a post code lottery: … Read more
Quality of care
Mental health support ‘denied to children’
More than a quarter of children referred to mental health services in England in 2015 – including some who had … Read more
Charity nurses warn of ‘postcode lottery’ in specialist children’s care
Expert children’s nurses have highlighted wide variations in services and standards for children with complex health needs as the ground-breaking … Read more
Ambulance delays linked to 35 deaths in past five years
Thirty-five patients have died in the past five years after delays of up to six hours in an ambulance reaching … Read more
The junior doctors’ dispute is over – but the battle against the government to save the NHS is just beginning
The endgame is here. The NHS five year plan consists of massive cuts, devolution, asset and land sell-offs and closures: this is … Read more
NHS managers are being forced to lie to the public – Carol Ackroyd
This latest “Transformation” will kill the NHS if we let it. Local managers are being forced to slash NHS budgets … Read more
NHS deficit damaging services to patients, says UNISON
Commenting on new figures showing a deficit of £2.45bn in NHS finances, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “This … Read more
More neonatal nursing and midwifery staff key to reducing baby deaths, say charities
Charities have called for urgent action to address staffing and funding shortfalls in neonatal care in the light of a … Read more
Seven-day plan is unworkable, says royal college leader
The unresourced plan to expand seven-day services in the NHS has crushed morale in a service already ‘stretched beyond reason’, … Read more
Trust reports dozens of 12 hour trolley waits in single month
Around 70 emergency patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted at an acute trust in Greater Manchester in … Read more