Does the NHS need more money?
In recent years, NHS spending has been protected while other budgets, such as those for local government services and policing, … Read more
City leaders make first moves towards ‘virtual’ MCP
Primary and community care leaders in the Portsmouth area are planning the first steps towards rolling out a new care … Read more
Emergency admissions and delayed transfers grow despite national efforts
The number of hospital emergency admissions rose 2.8 per cent in 2016-17 to 4.3 million, with March this year seeing … Read more
Potentially ‘life threatening’ gaps in care, independent review warns
Disruptions linked to a new care model for Bristol community mental health services “may well have been life threatening”, a … Read more
Greens vow funds to make NHS fighting fit for 21st century
The Green Party has pledged to put an end to the “pain of privatisation” in the NHS. Party co-leader Caroline … Read more
Terrifyingly, the NHS is about to get some of its money from hedge funds – this will be quantum leap in privatisation
Privatisation has long been held up as a panacea to the NHS’s problems. The first ‘PFI’ (Private Finance Initiative) schemes … Read more
Staffordshire NHS bosses: ‘Failed cancer care sell-off was NOT a waste of £840k’ – do you agree?
NHS bosses have defended a controversial cancer care ‘privatisation’ programme – which ended with no-one being awarded the £690m contract. … Read more
Changing population means NHS faces real-terms funding cut this decade
Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals that real-terms DH spending will increase by 12% over the period … Read more
Future Fit: No progress made on independent review
The independent review into the Future Fit process has still not made any progress, three months after it was announced … Read more
NHS pay cap ‘must be lifted’
The pay cap on NHS staff must be lifted because it puts patient safety at risk, NHS bosses say. NHS … Read more