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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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Academic reports

CQC State of Care report 2018/2019

In October 2019, the Care Quality Committee published its annual State of Care Report 2018/2019. The report covers all sectors … Read more

Categories Mental Health, Quality of care, Staffing, Underfunded Tags Academic reports, community health, CQC, hospitals, mental health, quality of care, safety, State of Care report, underfunding, waiting times

Report – Primary Concerns 2018 – The state of primary care

An overwhelming 44% of the 2,386 GPs, practice managers, practice and community nurses and community pharmacists surveyed reveal they are … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags Academic reports, community health, GPs, nurses, Pharmacists, primary care

CQC – Signs of improvement but concerns remain about the safety and quality of independent ambulance services

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling on independent ambulance services, commissioners and the wider system to do more to … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Academic reports, ambulance service, CQC, Privatisation, safety

GP screening and care plan programme for older patients ‘increases NHS costs’

An NHS programme that involved GPs screening older people at risk of hospitalisation and providing them with care plans increased … Read more

Categories Integrated care, Long-term plan, NHS spending, Quality of care Tags Academic reports, community health, GPs, integrated care, integrated care system, primary care

Little evidence that integrated care initiatives deliver

A report produced by the Nuffield Trust and Age UK concludes that there are very few signs that integrated and … Read more

Categories ACO, Integrated care, Long-term plan, National STP Tags Academic reports, Accountable Care Systems, ACO, Elderly care, ICS, integrated care, integrated care system, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform

Just Another Day – Unison report January 2019

This UNISON survey’s purpose was to spot-test a typical 24-hour period in the health service. The union asked people what … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags Academic reports, hospitals, NHS staff, nurses, recruitment, underfunding, understaffing, UNISON, waiting times

NHS financial sustainability – An NAO report

In its annual report on the financial sustainability of the NHS, the NAO concludes that the existence of substantial deficits … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags Academic reports, deficit, long-term plan, NAO, sustainability, waiting lists, waiting times

NHS ‘could be short of 350,000 staff by 2030’

Full story in The Guardian, 15 November 2018 The staffing crisis in the NHS is deepening so fast that the service could … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Academic reports, Brexit, Health Foundation, Kings Fund, NHS staff, Nuffield Trust, understaffing

UK must double mental health spending as global bill expected to top £12 trillion by 2030, landmark report warns

The UK must double its mental health spending to account for 10 per cent of the total health budget, according to … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care Tags Academic reports, children's health, community health, mental health, underfunding

Mental health services for the young is NHS’s ‘silent catastrophe’

Failings in treatment of children and young people with mental health problems is a “silent catastrophe” within the NHS and … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Academic reports, children's health, cuts to services, mental health, NHS reform, underfunding
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE