…enough’. NHSE/I’s director of elective and emergency care and operations performance told a webinar last week that “there will be 2,000 beds less open this winter”. Royal College of Emergency…
…NHS is wasteful and inefficient, and that staff are reluctant to put patients first and ‘modernise’. Labour’s promise to offer an open door to the private sector is especially troubling….
Ministers are being warned that the growing crisis in adult social care risks creating a “system for the rich” that leaves poorer communities unable to access essential help. The multi-billion…
…changes to the way services are commissioned are planned: Strengthening the region-wide committee of CCGs to commission some specialist services at a West Yorkshire and Harrogate level; Bringing together CCGs,…
…forced to make very hard trade-offs between tackling the elective care backlog and delivering on the planned investment to improve primary, community and mental health services, while delivering services that…
…RCM director for policy, employment relations and communications Jon Skewes said, ‘These latest NHS staff survey results are shocking but not surprising, midwives day in, day out face enormous pressure…
…proportion of NHS allocation spent on General Practice is at an all time low—at a time when work is being transferred from secondary to primary care.” The warning from the…
…practices. This includes complete closure of GP-run sexual health and contraceptive services in York, while 19 London boroughs are putting services out to tender, which GP leaders warn will mean…
…them deliver general practice. Almost half (44 per cent) said increased funding for general practice was the top priority, while 36 per cent said the most important thing was to…
…revealed in a new workforce survey. The Londonwide LMCs survey found that almost half GP practices in London are short at least one member of staff and 39 practices in…