Huge bills for controversial health plans are slammed
Health bosses have spent at least £17.6m on management consultants to draw up plans that could lead to the closure … Read more
STPs
Health consultancy fees ‘could have been used to benefit patients’
Health bosses spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultancy and admin fees while developing a local five-year plan to … Read more
Government demands ‘concrete progress’ on STPs
The government’s instructions to the NHS this year call for “concrete progress on local sustainability and transformation plans” and say … Read more
‘This feels totally wrong’: Poole Hospital governors response to controversial health plans
“This feels totally wrong.” Those are the words of governors from Poole Hospital who have filed a damning response to health … Read more
Constant restructuring of NHS is demoralising staff, survey finds
The number of NHS reorganisations in recent years is a key reason for the health service’s struggle to retain staff, … Read more
NHS campaigners head for London
NHS supporters from south Warwickshire took their objections to privatisation to the streets of London. Members of South Warwickshire Keep … Read more
Burton’s A&E will stay open, health bosses say
After months of campaigning, tens of thousands of signatures on the town MP’s petition, and dozens of articles by the … Read more
End of walk-in centre ‘will add to A&E pressure at Telford hospital’
Councillor Joan Gorse made the claim at a meeting of Wellington Town Council this week, where members discussed the planned … Read more
UCLH to go live with EHR system in 2019
[London, UK] University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has now approved a business case to deploy a full … Read more
Three-way merger to create largest CCG in England
Three clinical commissioning groups in Merseyside have announced plans to merge, after NHS England “paved the way” for discussions to … Read more