One in six A&E departments at risk of closure or downgrade
…areas of the UK are facing either complete closure or being replaced with minor injuries units. The plans are part of efforts to plug a £22bn hole in the health…
…areas of the UK are facing either complete closure or being replaced with minor injuries units. The plans are part of efforts to plug a £22bn hole in the health…
The children’s commissioner has launched a savage attack on the head of the NHS, accusing him of denigrating research that shows an “unacceptable” lack of children’s mental health provision. In…
…and as a result its ability to meet key targets, including A&E, cancer care, surgery and diagnostic tests has fallen off a cliff. Despite cuts to services and savings made…
…position of £610m. To tackle their debts there is emerging evidence that ICBs and their members are discussing bed cuts, recruitment freezes and job losses at all levels. but the…
…sharp increase on the 32 wards and 502 beds that were unused four years earlier, statistics obtained under freedom of information laws show. The closures, often a result of hospitals…
…Yorkshire Trust’s Castle Hill Hospital has already been closed to free up staff. Nursing director Mike Wright has told the board he cannot rule out more closures if the shortage…
…promote their private healthcare services completely separately. They should not market or promote these services within their NHS communications to patients and the public, eg appointment letters [and] NHS test…
AS many as six community hospitals could be replaced with ‘community hubs’ in the shake-up of health services across Dorset. Dorset CCG says it wants 100,000 patients a year to…
…has revealed. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) criticised both NHS and for-profit mental health providers for forcing such a large number of patients to endure what it called “outdated and…
…lower quality of care than those with physical health conditions. For example, long waiting times are still common for psychological therapy; many people receive care in facilities outside of their…