Tired nurses driving dangerously due to lack of proper breaks
…and overworked. The survey of 2,660 healthcare workers was prompted by the recent death of two nurses. It examined how safe staff felt driving home from their place of work…
…and overworked. The survey of 2,660 healthcare workers was prompted by the recent death of two nurses. It examined how safe staff felt driving home from their place of work…
…lack of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the workforce the NHS and care system needs. This report examines the current position with regard to two of the most important…
The Care Quality Commission has sounded the alarm over a “concerning decline” in women’s experiences with maternity services. Fewer women feel they always got the help they needed during labour…
…up recommendations until March 2017. The 47-page document also states it intends to make £42m ‘long term’ savings but only gives one example of how it intends to cut costs:…
…is already “likely to experience the most difficult winter on record”. “[We] are starting to see examples where clinically vulnerable people have been disconnected from their home energy supply, which…
Our recent report, Better value in the NHS, includes changes to generic prescribing as an example of improved productivity. Over the past 40 years, the rising trend in cheaper generic…
…in 2001 and could cope with 30,000 admissions per year, however admissions have doubled since then. For example, between February 2016 and January 2017, there were 70,151 attendances at the…
…1. In it, members of the so-called Joint Health Scrutiny Committee (JHSC), say they were repeatedly left without answers to their questions. Echoing the thoughts of Let’s Save HRI chairman,…
…In May, for example, 211,434 patients had been on the waiting list for more than six months, up from the 197,067 who were in that position a month before and…
…Guardian can reveal that, in a stark example of the growing problems, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust last week ran out of intensive care beds at its two…