Some 16,000 patients will lose their GP practice over the holiday period, as five practices are set to close across England. Four practices, with a combined patient list of 10,700,…
…growing crisis in services affecting patients with common eye conditions such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Their research shows that more than 260 patients a year are losing…
…to perform up to nine million additional tests a year by 2025”. But are these centres going to have any impact on the 1.5 million people waiting for tests at…
…will lose 400 beds, 85 will be lost in community hospitals and 50 mental health beds. In terms of wards, this 12 acute wards cut; 4-5 community wards lost; and…
…a week or did not get an appointment at all the last time they tried to see their doctor in 2015, compared with 13.8 million the year before, research from…
…community. The concern is that cuts in hospital care will be made, helping to achieve savings, but without proper investment in community health services. In December 2016, the BMA reported…
…report, or delivery plan, has confirmed – and this will come paired with much greater freedoms for local organisations. “[ACSs] are systems in which NHS organisations (both commissioners and providers),…
Extending access to routine general practice across seven days had ‘no demonstrable impact’ on either emergency admissions or out-of-hours services, NHS England’s final evaluation of the first £50m wave of…
…low testing levels. At that point, there was capacity for 12,799 daily tests in England, with just over 10,650 tests carried out. Full story in The Guardian, 30 April 2020…
Increasing numbers of GP surgeries are being forced to turn away new patients owing to immense pressures. BMA GPs committee chair Chaand Nagpaul has commented in response to an investigation…