Cuts in services
54 per cent rise in young people with mental health problems
Politicians and council leaders push government to increase funding for children’s services following a 54% rise in children with mental … Read more
Lancashire council spending £4million less on alcohol and drug addiction services
The UK Addiction Treatment group have said that Lancashire council’s misuse budget has dropped from £19,487,671 in 2013 to £15,599,371 … Read more
NHS IVF treatment to be cut permanently in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire
In 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group ended funding for IVF treatment for all patients with the exception of … Read more
Short termism is a threat to the NHS – Anita Charlesworth
“The £20bn cash injection for the NHS in England is ring-fenced for front-line health services, which is mainly the wage … Read more
Estimates of 1.4 million older people not receiving help needed
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) have said that local authorities spending £22.5 billion on adults and the … Read more
NHSE: Cuts need to stop if public health to stay with councils
NHS England has hit back over the health secretary’s assertion that public health budgets should stay with local government, saying … Read more
Sexual health clinics are on the austerity front line – and now STIs are surging
Just hours after the news broke that sexually transmitted infections have reached a 40-year high, another three clinics were shut down, this time … Read more
Sure Start programme saved the NHS millions of pounds, study finds
Sure Start children’s centres delivered major health benefits for youngsters in the most deprived areas, reducing the number of people … Read more
Patients directed to 111 or 999 as 13,000-patient practice cancels all appointments
A GP practice has cancelled all immediate and future appointments for its patients. Cleveland Surgery, in Gainsborough, which has a … Read more
The full story on how practices are closing in record numbers
Surgery closures have risen almost eight-fold in six years. Léa Legraien asks whether moves to large-scale general practice can stem the … Read more
District nurse numbers plummet leaving services under-resourced and unsafe
According to a new report district nursing is significantly under-resourced, with often unsafe staffing levels, which can lead to unsafe … Read more
Nurses’ goodwill is being ‘abused’ and people need to be ‘held to account’
The Royal College of Nursing has said that the Government has consistently failed to reduce the number of vacancies and … Read more
NHS England loses 6,000 mental health nurses in 10 years
New figures show that the number of mental health nurses in England has slumped by more than a tenth over … Read more
Community hospital to close in face of staff shortages
A major nursing shortage will mean that the City Community Hospital in Oxford will close temporarily at the end of … Read more
Overtired GPs openly making mistakes as new research reveals doctors see more patients than is safe
GPs are openly making mistakes because they are overtired, with the majority of doctors seeing more patients than they think is … Read more
One in 10 GPs see twice as many patients as safe limit, survey finds
GPs are seeing up to 60 patients a day, double the number they consider safe, as services struggle with staff … Read more