There are a number of organisations in the South West beset with difficulties, financial and otherwise. But Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group, along with Southern Health Foundation Trust, probably ranks among…
…pay has warned. Such a strategy could only provide a short term “stop gap” to help fill the estimated 12,500 full-time equivalent nurse vacancies, said the group’s latest report. But…
…The latest plans show: A&E services could be reduced in at least one of the three hospitals, ‘especially overnight’ Consultant-led maternity care could be removed in at least one hospital,…
A new blog on NHS funding by the Nuffield Trust’s Sally Gainsbury highlights the scale of the problems coming down the line for whichever party wins the next election, which…
Full story at HSJ 30 April 2018 Three patients suffered severe harm because their chest x-rays were among tens of thousands of tests not reviewed properly at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust….
As the Tory leadership contest degenerates even further into a race to the far right in an effort to win over the peculiar ‘selectorate’ of 160,000 mainly elderly, prosperous Party…
The RCN’s latest survey on workplace staffing levels in the NHS offers sobering evidence of how one of the Tories’ 2019 manifesto commitments – to employ 50,000 more nurses by…
…fears that those needing treatment for heart attacks and stroke, diagnostic tests and potentially life-saving surgery could lose their lives while they wait. The first year of Covid-19 brought 5,800…
…turn a blind eye to the gaps and weaknesses in the plans, and grasp the promised £450m rather than risk delays, local campaigners are faced with the latest of a…
Full Story in The Independent 13 March 2018 The equivalent of ten children’s intensive care units a day are unable to find a single spare bed in the latest warning…