Survey reveals working for the NHS is making staff sick with stress
Full Story in Devon Live 14 April 2018 NHS staff in Devon don’t look forward to going to work and … Read more
Unless quick action is taken on staffing NHS risks more cancelled procedures in 2018
Full Story in National Health Executive 12 March 2018 The NHS is being “pushed to its limit,” according the Royal … Read more
Trusts set up private companies to save vital staff.
Full Story at Open Democracy, 26 February 2018 Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across England are looking at (or already … Read more
More EU27 staff quit as the Brexit impacts continue.
Full story at The Guardian 13 January 2018 Increasing numbers of European Union-trained ambulance staff are quitting the NHS, raising … Read more
Swindon CCG applies for 20 GPs from overseas
Full Story at Swindon Advertiser 11 January 2018 A GP shortfall could be partly plugged by recruits from abroad. Swindon … Read more
GPs losing sleep over patient safety fears, says head of profession
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says colleagues are left anxious by overwork and exhaustion … Read more
Public sector pay cap: NHS staff real income cut by almost £2,000 over seven years of wage squeeze
The damage inflicted on the living standards of NHS staff by the Government’s pay freezes and caps has been underlined by new … Read more
‘Enough is enough’: nurses protest against pay cap outside Westminster
Nurses have expressed their anger over the public sector pay cap in a protest outside parliament, warning the government they … Read more
Is it any wonder the NHS is struggling to recruit homegrown GPs when their job has been reduced to little more than delivering bad news?
As the NHS launches a £100m drive to recruit foreign GPs, it’s hard to know what to think. Perhaps we should feel … Read more
NHS pursuing foreign GPs with £100m recruitment drive
The NHS will pay agencies up to £100 million to recruit GPs from abroad in a bid to increase staffing … Read more