Staff shortages common theme across NHS, warns CQC
Staffing shortfalls have been identified as a key factor affecting patient safety in hospitals and care homes, according to a report from the Care Quality Commission. Poor staff numbers and…
Staffing shortfalls have been identified as a key factor affecting patient safety in hospitals and care homes, according to a report from the Care Quality Commission. Poor staff numbers and…
Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are having to clean wards after cleaners from a private company in order to maintain standards, the trust board has said. At a meeting…
…the beds at the hospital. Patients would then be cared for in their own homes or in other local community hospitals. NHS officials say there will be more primary care…
The deteriorating health of the UK population has boosted turnover at one of Britain’s largest private hospital operators as the NHS comes under growing strain. Increasingly unhealthy lifestyles and a…
Common medicines are in increasingly short supply according to reports from pharmacists who warn they are being forced to pay over the odds to secure drugs for their patients. While…
…company (SubCo) to employ almost 700 of its staff. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chiefs say the move will help them deliver necessary savings. But it has drawn criticism from…
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are meeting to discuss £33million cuts next year to compensate for the £192million government funding deficit. Community and non-hospital services may have their…
…amount of cash it gives to Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust (LCH) – leaving staff in a “difficult and uncertain time”, according to trade union Unison. Services that could be…
GPs in one region of England may have to shoulder an increasing burden of patient care as part of radical plans to transform general practice. Nottinghamshire’s draft sustainability and transformation…
Full story at PulseToday 2 May 2018 The Government squeeze on the public health budget has been brutal, and it is already hitting GP practices hard. GPs are having to…