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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
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Rationing

Doctors to breathalyse smokers before allowing them NHS surgery

Smokers in Hertfordshire are to be breathalysed to ensure they have kicked the habit before they are referred for non-urgent … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending Tags CCGs, rationing, STP 25

Revealed: NHS’s plans to bar patients from attending A&E without a referral

NHS England is considering pilots to stop walk-in patients attending A&E departments, requiring them to be referred by a GP … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags A&E, cuts to services, waiting times, winter crisis

NHS patients going blind and missing cancer treatments due to hospital failings, report finds

Patients in Cornwall died after waiting too long for heart treatment, while others were left to go blind, according to a damning … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing, STPs Tags capped expenditure, CQC, cuts to services, deficit, rationing, safety, STP 36, waiting times

Charity fears national precedent if CCG axes free transport services

A charity has warned a dangerous precedent may be set if a clinical commissioning group enforces its decision to stop … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags cuts to services, deficit, STP 36

NHS IVF no longer available in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, despite pioneering it

Full story in BioNews, 11 September 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)  has removed funding for free IVF treatment, despite being the county … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending, STPs Tags cuts to services, ivf, STP 21, underfunding

IVF cut back in 13 areas of England to save money, new data shows

Thirteen areas of England have restricted or completely halted IVF treatment since the start of the year for women struggling to conceive, … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending Tags cuts to services, deficit, ivf, postcode lottery, STP 19, STP 25, STP 29, STP 31, STP 40, STP 8, underfunding

NHS cutbacks worsen IVF ‘postcode lottery’ in England

Funding cuts by the UK’s NHS has meant that 13 areas in England have restricted or halted IVF treatment since the start of 2017, … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending, STPs Tags cuts to services, deficit, ivf, STP 31, STP 39, underfunding

GPs unable to order adult hepatitis B vaccine ‘until further notice’

Practices will be unable to order stocks of adult Hepatitis B vaccine ‘until further notice’ after new guidance to ensure … Read more

Categories Rationing, STPs Tags NHS, postcode lottery

Nuffield health sales leap as NHS comes under strain

The deteriorating health of the UK population has boosted turnover at one of Britain’s largest private hospital ­operators as the … Read more

Categories STPs, Rationing Tags cuts to services, National STP, NHS reform, NHS staff, Public Health

NHS England delay ‘denies patients access to life saving treatment’

Patients are being denied access to heart treatments that could prevent strokes or save lives, after an NHS England project … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags rationing, 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