Record high for England’s NHS waiting list
…to tackle the backlog through the use of community diagnostic centres where people can have tests such as scans and X-rays, and surgical hubs, which carry out large numbers of…
…to tackle the backlog through the use of community diagnostic centres where people can have tests such as scans and X-rays, and surgical hubs, which carry out large numbers of…
Images of trolleys laden with suffering people in corridors, old people hooked up to drips on beds in cupboards – not pictures emerging from Syria, but the latest crisis to…
…called an emergency protest outside Margate’s QEQM hospital on November 6. The three remaining specialist stroke centres will eventually be in Dartford, Maidstone and Ashford – with units at Margate,…
…jobs advertised. “This means that this private, for-profit company, has a say in matters of the health service, and will be collecting a hefty commission from the placement of these…
…into the community. The concern is that financial pressure will mean that cuts in hospital care will be made, helping to achieve savings, but without proper investment in community health…
…and he calls for commitments to future funding for above inflation wage rises for NHS staff. Going even further, he comments: “More importantly, the NHS needs a funding guarantee, not…
…in the eight years since it opened. About 7,000 RIO patients have collectively lost 33.7 tonnes since 2009. But that total will not be added to – at least, not…
…Lincolnshire West Clinical Commission Group’s governing body took the decision to close the facility in Monks Road at a meeting on Thursday, January 24. Opening times will be slashed from…
The ongoing A&E crisis has shifted attention on to GPs. We are being blamed for being less accessible (with appointments hard to get or surgeries not being open for long…
…and backed its view the unit should not reopen until it had “sufficient staff”. The county council’s Conservative leader Martin Hill described Mr Hunt’s decision as a “disappointing result”. “The…