Cuts in services
Investment and support for general practice must be the focus of local STPs
The RCGP has responded to the King’s Fund report on Sustainability and Transformation Plans, published today. Professor Maureen Baker, RCGP … Read more
NHS cuts: How will Yeovil Hospital and Musgrove Park be affected as NHS bids to avoid £600M deficit?
Somerset’s two main hospitals are considering their options as they seek to avoid a £600M deficit by 2021 and it … Read more
STP plans to cut GP numbers by a fifth and merge practices
GP numbers will fall by 18% by 2021 under STP plans published for Somerset. Under proposals drawn up by local … Read more
MP demands health bosses reveal details of ‘secret’ NHS cuts plan
Shadow Health Minister Barbara Keeley raised concerns after an investigation found NHS England chiefs had told local leaders to keep … Read more
STPs ‘far from perfect’ but NHS has no plan B, warns think tank
Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have failed to involve frontline clinicians or patients and have been mired in confusion, a … Read more
Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank
NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved … Read more
NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’
NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found. Full details … Read more
Lancashire and South Cumbria healthcare plan aims to plug £575m funding gap
Health services in Lancashire and South Cumbria will face a projected £575m funding gap by 2021 unless extensive changes are … Read more
Ultimatum: Council warns NHS bosses ‘Publish major health plans or we will’
A senior councillor says he will publish a confidential plan for the future of healthcare in Leicestershire himself if NHS … Read more
Somerset STP plots ‘accountable care system’
Somerset’s sustainability and transformation plan sets the goal of implementing an “accountable care system” by April 2019. The plan, which … Read more
Claim Lewisham A&E service in danger rejected
Claims that Lewisham Hospital A&E could be at risk of closure again because of a shortfall in local NHS funding … Read more
Revealed: The CCGs cutting mental health budgets
More than a fifth of commissioners are failing to raise mental health spending by as much as directed by NHS … Read more
Can Simon Stevens’ Sustainability and Transformation Plans save the NHS? – The Centre for Health and Public Interest
Predictions that the NHS is facing disaster have been issued so often that people no longer pay much attention. This … Read more
Merseyside and Cheshire NHS: Plans to downgrade three A&Es considered
Plans to downgrade three A&E units in Cheshire and Merseyside have been considered as part of NHS budget cuts, according … Read more
STP needs £755m of capital funding to succeed, says leaked document
More than £750m of capital funding is required to deliver the sustainability and transformation plan for Cheshire and Mersey, according … Read more
King George Hospital A&E closure nears as hospitals reveal possible date for overnight closure
Documents obtained by the Recorder suggest that Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT) now has a date for … Read more