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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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Rationing

Charge for hospital stays to help fund NHS, says ex-health boss

Patients would be charged £8 a day when in hospital under proposals from a former health service boss to raise … Read more

Categories Funding, Hospitals, Rationing Tags copayments, NHS charges

Overhaul of commissioning could hit specialised services delivery

The introduction of integrated care systems (ICSs) this summer, triggering a major overhaul of commissioning responsibilities, could have a negative … Read more

Categories Integrated care, Hospitals, Long-term plan, NHS spending, Rationing Tags cancer therapy, commissioning, ICS, integrated care systems, specialised commissioning

Boris Johnson accused of ‘shameful spinning’ of cancer care targets

At a visit to a cancer centre in Kent, Boris Johnson, supposedly unveiled plans for what he portrayed as two … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing, Treatment delays Tags cancer targets, waiting lists

Nottingham rations cancer care due to lack of staff

More than a decade of frozen funding has brought the NHS to a shocking new stage of crisis, in which … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care, Rationing, Safety, Treatment delays Tags cancer care, NHS staff, treatment delays, understaffing, waiting lists

More than 150 critical care products removed from normal order channels

The HSJ reports that hospitals can no longer order around 150 of critical care products through normal channels because of … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Rationing Tags coronavirus, critical care, elective surgery, hospitals, NHS Supply, rationing

Under-18s being denied urgent mental health treatment, say GPs

A survey of GPs across the UK show that they do not feel confident that a young person will receive … Read more

Categories Funding, Mental Health, Quality of care, Rationing, Treatment delays Tags CAMHS, children's mental health, GPs, mental health, primary care, treatment delays, waiting times

Restriction of specialist referrals under new NHS ‘rationing’ plan for London

A controversial programme of NHS “rationing” is to be introduced in London, including GPs being urged not to refer patients … Read more

Categories Rationing, Cuts to services, Deficit Tags CCGs, cuts to services, GPs, hospitals, outpatient appointments, rationing

Postcode lottery forcing patients to register with out-of-area practices to ‘get around it’

Minister Jackie Doyle reported that patients are registering at out-of-area surgeries in order to access IVF services. There has been … Read more

Categories Rationing, CCGs, Cuts to services Tags CCGs, ivf, parliament, practices, rationing

NHS IVF treatment to be cut permanently in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire

In 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group ended funding for IVF treatment for all patients with the exception of … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, NHS spending, Rationing Tags CCGs, cuts to services, ivf, rationing, Recent news

NHS failure to meet waiting times targets risks patients’ lives

The Public Accounts Committee report on NHS waiting times was released 12 June 2019. In summary, it states that more and … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Long-term plan, Quality of care, Rationing Tags cancer targets, hospitals, Public Accounts Committee, surgery, treatment delays, waiting times
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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