Health bosses say hospital beds are not the answer to NHS’s problems in Staffordshire
NHS bosses say the health service in Staffordshire needs to move away from bed-based care to ensure it is sustainable … Read more
STPs
‘Key tests must be met’ before Hackney Council’s health chief endorses £587m cost-cutting NEL STP plans
Hackney Council’s health boss has refused to sign up to NHS England’s “secretive” Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) until he … Read more
Weston-super-Mare’s ‘underfunded’ hospital at risk due to new cuts
Weston and North Somerset Trades Council has called for a stop to ‘bewildering’ cuts to the NHS as concern for … Read more
Controversial NHS shake-up will cost £150m of taxpayers’ money
A controversial plan to transform NHS services and make savings will itself cost £150m of taxpayer cash to deliver, it has … Read more
Have your say on future of the district’s stroke service
HEALTH watchdogs are urging people district wide to have their say over possible cuts to emergency stroke services. Under massive … Read more
More funding is needed for shake-up to A&E services in mid Essex, claims medical union
A SHAKE-UP to A&E services in mid Essex will be “unachievable” without more funding, a leading medical union has said. … Read more
NHS in Crisis? North Herts health and social care providers must meet challenge of huge funding gap but are well placed to begin transformation
As the national media reported extensively this week, there is a huge hole in funding for health care which needs … Read more
Epsom Hospital’s A&E among 3 being reviewed in region because keeping all open is ‘not sustainable’
Epsom Hospital is one of three in the region whose A&Es are under review by NHS England because keeping them … Read more
Suffolk and north Essex health chiefs seek millions to prop up services amid ‘huge challenges’
Health and social care bosses in Suffolk and north Essex have clubbed together to make a multimillion pound series of … Read more
Hospital bosses deny reports that Macclesfield A&E will close
Hospital bosses have hit back at reports that the A&E department will be closed. Reports in the national press have … Read more