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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
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A&E

Hospitals forced to redeploy nurses to care for patients in corridors

The Guardian reports that hospitals are having to redeploy nurses from wards to look after queues of patients in corridors … Read more

Categories Safety, Staffing, Underfunded Tags A&E, hospitals, treatment delays, understaffing, winter crisis

NHS delays are at their worst ever level

Key performance targets for A&E care, access to GPs, cancer care and planned operations are at their worst ever levels, … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Safety, Staffing Tags A&E, hospitals, treatment delays, winter crisis

Trainees tell HEE inspectors that they feel “overwhelmed, unsafe and were being asked to work beyond their abilities”

A Health Education England (HEE) report on the Isle of Wight Trust obtained by the HSJ via a freedom of … Read more

Categories Staffing, Safety Tags A&E, doctors, hospitals, NHS staff, understaffing

NHS performance figures hit new lows

NHS bosses say the NHS is “on its knees” even before winter has begun, as figures for November show it … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Funding, Quality of care Tags A&E, cancer targets, hospitals, NHS Digital, NHS England, treatment delays, winter crisis

Dear Boris Johnson, you failed this patient and your negligence contributed to his death

A junior doctor at the Worces­tershire Royal Hospital writes an open letter to Boris Johnson, published in The Daily Mirror. … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Safety, Staffing, Underfunded Tags A&E, cuts to services, doctors, hospitals, underfunding, understaffing, waiting times

NHS and social care: manifesto 2019 check

Election manifestos are not the place to find detailed health policies, but they do give an insight into how the … Read more

Categories General election 2019 Tags A&E, Conservative Party, cuts to services, deficit, Department of Health, general election 2019, Green Party, hospitals, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, NHS reform, Privatisation, social care, underfunding, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times

Study shows thousands of patients die waiting for beds in hospitals

A study by leading NHS doctors has found that almost 5,500 patients have died over the past three years because … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, hospitals, patient safety, safety, underfunding, waiting times

Four-year-old boy forced to sleep on hospital floor due to lack of beds

A four-year-old boy was forced to sleep on a hospital floor as he waited for more than eight hours in … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, children's health, hospitals, treatment delays, winter crisis

Hospital waits at worst-ever level

Data from NHS Digital shows that more patients than ever before are on hospital waiting lists in England and delays … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Underfunded Tags A&E, cancer, cancer targets, hospitals, NHS Digital, safety, waiting lists

Tory Cuts mean 88 year old with dementia left on A&E trolley for hours 

Jill Woolley an 88 year old with dementia taken by ambulance to A&E at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags A&E, hospitals, social care, treatment delays, underfunding, waiting times, winter crisis
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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