Sir Simon Stephens, head of NHS England, warned that Britain must solve its social care crisis if “any good” is to come from the coronavirus pandemic. On the Andrew Marr…
…savings would come from prevention and a shift from hospital care to care at home or in local communities. This included ‘a shift of acute activity away from the John…
The fight to save community hospital beds from the axe will continue, according to Cumbria County council leader Stewart Young. He has vowed to battle plans approved by the Success…
Several community hospitals are to close along with a county birthing centre under radical plans to cut NHS costs across Leicestershire and Rutland. The sustainability and transformation plan (STP) published…
…might be completed by 2030, with a further eight to be completed later. At most two of the very smallest schemes might be completed by 2025. One, of these, the…
On 30 January 2020, Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, published her third annual children’s mental health briefing, ‘The state of children’s mental health services’. The briefing notes that…
A major nursing shortage will mean that the City Community Hospital in Oxford will close temporarily at the end of May. By the end of May, two-thirds of nursing posts…
…deliver more than £2bn of savings over five years. The company has been registered in Companies House as Supply Chain Coordination Limited but is known as the “intelligent client coordinator”….
The NHS long-term plan has set no commitment on when the service will get back to meeting its core statutory access targets. The long-awaited plan, published today, did pledge to…
…moving more care away from hospitals and into the community and getting services to integrate with each other. Many areas propose ways for GPs, community nurses and social care to…