Government funding shortfalls for suicide prevention services could mean people are dying unnecessarily, an influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned. MPs on the House of Commons Health Select Committee…
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) will soon begin a major campaign to recruit health workers from other countries to meet growing staff shortages. Reports suggest a strategy has been…
The NHS is at “breaking point” with a decline in the number of hospital beds compounding the situation, according to the British Medical Association. A reduction in bed numbers has…
…England, making it the biggest winner among private companies bidding for NHS work over the period. The company and its subsidiaries now hold at least 400 contracts across the public…
…need to take “difficult choices” to stay within a combined funding envelope for their area. The previous instructions did not state constitutional standards over waiting times and patient choice would…
…is caught between austerity budgeting and hostile ideology. The Coalition and Conservative governments since 2010 have squeezed the NHS between a hugely complex, expensive and ongoing reorganisation intended to put…
…Nurses (ICN). Zimbabwean nurses have faced long-standing disputes over pay and working conditions, with nurses facing issues of pay being withheld and staffing agreements disregarded. The development comes as new…
…combination of Covid cases and reduced capacity mean that over 12,000 (almost one in eight) acute beds in England are unavailable for normal activity, and the Covid beds still require…
…Minister Tony Blair committed his government to matching the average for health spending as a percentage of GDP in the 14 other countries of the European Union in 2000 (8.5…
…lot of professional staff whether it be social workers, occupational therapists, CPNs or inpatient nurses.” “Everything is strained to the limit……it is not acceptable, so the commissioners and the decisions…