Theresa May accused of ‘playing down’ NHS crisis and ‘scapegoating’ GPs
…On Saturday, Downing Street warned GPs in England who refuse to open surgeries from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week will lose funding unless they can prove there is…
…On Saturday, Downing Street warned GPs in England who refuse to open surgeries from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week will lose funding unless they can prove there is…
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is urging the NHS to open hundreds of extra beds for people with mental health conditions. It says that the cuts in mental health beds…
…usually based in the community are being told to work in the RBH’s maternity unit instead. An internal briefing compiled by the Reading trust reveals that nurse vacancy rates are…
…90,000 of the 1.3 million workers employed by local authority and independent sector employers come from elsewhere in the EU. The current policy of free movement remains unchanged until the…
…coats in freezing wards, operations being delayed due to leaks on to operating tables and blocked drains causing sewage to seep into clinical areas, according to research by Labour. The…
…research, conducted by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and published following an inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health, reveals that local authorities are now…
…Policy Research (IPPR) we believe – along with many others in the policy community in healthcare – that this may be a significant understatement of the financial problems facing the…
Full story in The Guardian, 28 August 2018 Almost half of maternity units at hospitals in England were closed to expectant mothers at least once during 2017, research by Labour…
…authorities, which are trying to slash spending. Research has found young people who do not receive help in the early stages of their illness can suffer serious consequences, often needing…
…the Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the BMA, the SPECTRUM public health research collaboration, the Smokefree Action Coalition and…