Fantasy and denial in under-funded NHS
Following a disastrous pandemic that has drastically cut back the capacity of NHS acute hospitals and piled added pressures and … Read more
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Covid pressure on health visitors puts generation of babies at risk, charities say
The NSPCC and nine other early-years charities have warned that a generation of babies born during the Covid-19 pandemic may … Read more
Social care at breaking point in England after ‘lost decade’
A paper from the University of Birmingham has highlighted how policymakers’ failure to tackle chronically underfunded social care has resulted … Read more
CCGs caught short-changing mental health services
Several Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have been found to have made false claims about how much they have spent on … Read more
Safety watchdog warns that babies dying from treatable infections due to avoidable NHS errors
Babies are at risk of dying from a common treatable infection because NHS staff on maternity wards are not following … Read more
UK drug deaths can be reduced by funding treatment services
The Guardian reports that experts have urged the government to invest in treatment services to bring down the number of … Read more
Report on mental health from Children’s Commissioner shows huge disparity across the country in treatment
On 30 January 2020, Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, published her third annual children’s mental health briefing, ‘The … Read more
12 deaths of eating disorder patients in seven years led to coroner warnings
The Guardian reports that over the last seven years, at least 12 highly vulnerable people with eating disorders have died … Read more
Hospitals forced to redeploy nurses to care for patients in corridors
The Guardian reports that hospitals are having to redeploy nurses from wards to look after queues of patients in corridors … Read more
Dear Boris Johnson, you failed this patient and your negligence contributed to his death
A junior doctor at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital writes an open letter to Boris Johnson, published in The Daily Mirror. … Read more