New dangers to NHS from think tank critics
…then where are all these more extreme ideas coming from? The Guardian’s George Monbiot has highlighted the role of right wing lobby groups, noting that Truss’s senior special advisor is…
…then where are all these more extreme ideas coming from? The Guardian’s George Monbiot has highlighted the role of right wing lobby groups, noting that Truss’s senior special advisor is…
…its means. In the past, some hospitals have received extra financial support from the Department of Health when they have overspent, but the latest NHS planning guidance signals a shift…
…– combined with rising patient lists – mean each GP is more stretched than at any time in recent history. The latest NHS workforce figures show that in Oldham, for…
Our Quarterly Monitoring Report examines the views of finance directors on the productivity challenge they face, as well as some key NHS performance data to see how the NHS is…
…busier arguing with one of the world’s most respected scientific minds than doing what we are desperate for him to do – fix the NHS. Or perhaps, conversely, the latest…
“Secret plans to change our NHS”: This is the allegation levelled at sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) – the government’s latest NHS reform initiative – by campaigning group 38 Degrees….
…for by the NHS. For example, consultants are employed by private hospitals on a self-employed basis and the companies contribute nothing to their training. Full article on The Lowdown, 26…
…latest example of cash-strapped CCGs implementing controversial restrictions on patients’ access to treatment which doctors have agreed they need. It follows a series of rows over the growing number of…
Find your STP In October 2018, the chief executives of NHS England and NHS Improvement wrote to all STP leaders instructing them to come up with new five year plans…
…behind most of the plans is to treat less people in hospital and transfer care to GPs and community settings, but the major concern is that cuts in acute services…