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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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Data shows that almost two-thirds of care homes have had no staff tested

The Independent reports that only 15 per cent of care home staff have been tested for coronavirus since the start … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Social Care Tags adult social services, care homes, coronavirus, social care, testing

Care Homes – Hancock’s “protective ring” fails to protect

As the scale of the disaster inflicted on our care homes and social care by the Coronavirus has become clear, … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Social Care Tags coronavirus, lockdown, safety, social care, testing

PHE report: agency staff spreading Covid-19 between care homes

The Guardian reports that an unpublished government study by Public Health England (PHE) has found that temporary care workers transmitted … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Social Care, Staffing Tags care staff, coronavirus, patient safety, social care, social care staff, zero hours

Hancock complacent as care home crisis continues

After a week of belatedly showing some apparent concern at the high levels of deaths in care homes from Covid-19, Matt Hancock … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Safety, Social Care Tags care homes, coronavirus, Matt Hancock, patient safety, safety

STP chair says care home residents paid ‘huge price’ for emptying of acute beds

HSJ reports that at a webinar on health and social care Patricia Hewitt, the chair of Norfolk and Waveney STP … Read more

Categories Social Care, Coronavirus, Integrated care, Safety Tags coronavirus, hospitals, patient safety, social care

£60,000 cannot make up for loss, say grieving NHS families

The families of NHS and social care workers who died after contracting coronavirus in the course of their duties will … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Safety, Social Care, Staffing Tags coronavirus, Matt Hancock, NHS staff, PPE, safety, social care, social care staff

Testing for Covid-19 – an unresolved fiasco

Matt Hancock’s sudden conversion on April 23 to the cause of mass tracing of contacts of people infected by Covid-19 and commitment … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Safety, Social Care Tags coronavirus, Matt Hancock, NHS staff, safety, testing

Front-line staff dealing with COVID-19 deserve an extra £29 a day, say MPs

Nursing Notes reports that the Liberal Democrats have suggested that NHS and social care workers on the frontline of the … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Social Care, Staffing Tags coronavirus, NHS staff, pay, safety, social care

Half of frontline care workers paid less than living wage

According to the Resolution Foundation think tank more than half of social care workers are paid below the real cost … Read more

Categories Social Care, Coronavirus, pay Tags Academic reports, coronavirus, Elderly care, pay, social care, social care staff

Social care crisis risks two-tier blow to the poor, ministers warned

Ministers are being warned that the growing crisis in adult social care risks creating a “system for the rich” that … Read more

Categories Social Care Tags funding, health inequalities, social care crisis
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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