Cuts in services
Extra NHS funding demanded by Ipswich MP for winter ambulance crisis
Full Story in East Anglian Daily Times 22 January 2018 A Suffolk MP has demanded the Government pledge emergency cash … Read more
Broomfield Hospital visited by Jeremy Hunt amid protests over hospital merger plans
Full story in Essex Live 19 January 2018 Health secretary Jeremy Hunt was heckled when he visited Broomfield Hospital amid … Read more
Patients to travel to Hampstead as Wembley and Willesden cardiology to be closed
Full Story at GetWestLondon 14 January 2018 From the end of February 2018, cardiology services at Wembley and Willesden Health … Read more
Grantham A&E closure decision is referred to health secretary Jeremy Hunt
Full story in Grantham Journal, 17 January 2018 Members of a Lincolnshire committee have unanimously voted to refer the decision … Read more
Patient safety could be at risk due to care cuts warns MP.
Full story at The Guardian 17 January 2018 Calls for cuts to the cost of care for some ill and … Read more
Protests regarding bed cuts, held in Derby city centre
Full story at Derby Telegraph 22 November 2017 Dozens of campaigners who say they are fighting to save the NHS … Read more
Save our hospitals: Campaigners take the fight to reopen community beds to downing street
Full story in stoke sentinel 17 January 2018 Campaigners, nurses, care workers and politicians are descending on London next month … Read more
Fears over future of Yorkshire GP services after closures and mergers
Full story in The Yorkshire Post, 12 January 2018 Fears have been raised for the future of GP services after … Read more
Place of safety unit temporarily closed by Swindon CCG
Full story at Swindon Advertiser 11 January 2018 A SWINDON mental health suite will be closed for a year, it … Read more
Hospital crisis: Thousands wait more than four hours to be seen at A&E
Full story at Express and Star 11 January 2018 One in five patients arriving at A&E at hospitals in the … Read more
Public consultation process says no to closure of Dilke and Lydney hospitals
Full story in GloucestershireLive, 8 January 2018 Campaigners are demanding the NHS drops plans to close two community hospitals and … Read more
Ambulances waiting for hours outside Merseyside A&E
Full Story in Liverpool Echo 8 January 2018 Ambulances were left queuing for more than an hour outside Merseyside A&Es … Read more
Hidden Document unveils plan to close Cornwall’s Minor Injury Unit
Full Story at CornwallLive 4 January 2018 There are fears that 10 of the 14 Minor Injury Units dotted around Cornwall could … Read more
‘Angry’ patients forced to wait for treatment due to backlog at Broomfield Hospital
Full story in Essex Live 2 January 2018 Around 12 to 13 ambulances from the East of England Ambulance Service … Read more
Shropshire rural maternity units will reopen for births – but for how long?
Full story in The Shropshire Star, 29 December 2017 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs Telford’s … Read more
Experts blast NHS for lack of consultation over hospital bed closures
Full story in The Sentinel, 27 December 2018 Government advisors have blasted NHS bosses for their ‘reactive, incomplete and ill-focused’ approach to … Read more