£1bn bedblocking fund not being spent properly, say 40% of hospitals
…As a result, the NHS is likely to come even closer to falling over than it did in 2016-17, according to a new report from NHS Providers, the trade association…
…As a result, the NHS is likely to come even closer to falling over than it did in 2016-17, according to a new report from NHS Providers, the trade association…
…a result of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that the RCM sent to 136 NHS trusts in England last year about their spend on agency midwives. The FOI had…
…patients. As a result almost every hospital trust, facing huge financial pressures this financial year, has opted to axe the additional support that many admit had helped to free up…
…charities who claim that lives are being put at risk as a result of the fragmented provision. Evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that an increasing number…
…Cash-strapped Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England said they will reduce the proportion of their budgets spent on offering mental health support in 2017/18, despite previous commitments from Health Secretary…
…did not know how to ward off an impending £876million health budget deficit. The five boroughs have been forced to come together to devise a plan to dramatically improve health…
Full story in The Guardian, 3 October 2018 A watchdog has banned adverts for a smartphone app that promises to let patients “see an NHS GP in minutes for free”….
…STPs, are a Hunt-ish scheme to reduce provision under the NHS principle of “free at the point of delivery” and hand over more elements of the health service to the…
Full story in The Independent, 2 July 2018 Free at the point of need. That for me, as we debate the NHS on its 70th birthday, is the one thing…
…spent in 2015-16, but 22% more than their £64.2m outlay in 2014-15, according to data obtained by the Press Association under freedom of information laws. South Central ambulance service spent…