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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

Only 9p per patient of global sum to cover ‘inflation and other changes’

GPs in England will receive just 9p of new funding per patient this year to cover the costs of inflation … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags GPs, underfunding

Eye patients harmed after acute trust’s waiting list spirals

Full story in The HSJ, 31 October 2018 Nearly 40 eye patients have suffered a worsening of their condition because … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags cuts to services, hospitals, ophthalmology, safety, STP 42, waiting times

Revealed: Hospital made ‘lunacy’ bed cuts before severe winter problems

Full story in The HSJ, 8 October 2018 A trust reduced its “core bed base” by nearly 40 in the … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags cuts to services, emergency care, hospitals, winter crisis

Hundreds turn out in protest at plans to remove stroke unit from Margate’s QEQM Hospital

Fully story in The Isle of Thanet News, 6 October 2018 Hundreds of campaigners turned out today (October 6) to … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags CCGs, cuts to services, Kent and Medway, NHS reform, rationing, STP 32

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

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

Tory cuts leave alcohol addiction services at breaking point warns Labour, as figures show record low in treatment

Full story in The Independent, 13 September 2018 Cuts to council budgets for addiction services have led to lowest number of people … Read more

Categories Rationing, Quality of care Tags addiction services, community health, cuts to services, Public Health, waiting times

NHS bosses urge hospitals to send patients to private firms

Full story in The Guardian, 31 August 2018 NHS bosses have urged hospitals to send patients to be treated by … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags Privatisation, rationing, surgery, underfunding, waiting lists

‘Grossly underfunded’ practices unable to compete with online providers, warn GPs

Full story in The Guardian, 30 August 2018 Private online providers are creating competition between NHS practices that is threatening … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags community health, digital health, GPs, primary care, Privatisation, waiting times

NHS rationing putting hernia patients’ lives at risk, say surgeons

Patients with hernia problems are being left in pain and at risk of needing emergency surgery, and even of death, … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags cuts to services, rationing, safety, surgery, treatment delays
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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