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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
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Next year’s A&E targets will be impossible to meet says health trusts

Full Story in The Guardian 29 March 2018 NHS plans for the coming year will be impossible to deliver despite … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS staff, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times

Top doctor warns NHS winter crisis will carry on until Easter

Full Story in The Essential Daily Briefing 20 March 2018 The NHS “winter crisis” will drag on until at least … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS staff, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Final figures show NHS winter crisis officially worst on record and patients still suffering

Full Story in The Independent 16 March 2018 “Heroic” NHS staff weathered the worst winter on record as official figures … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, treatment delays, waiting times, winter crisis

Patients urged to write to MPs over NHS as A&E perfomance hits all-time low

Full Story in the Eastern Daily Press 9 March 2018 The county’s busiest hospital recorded the worst A&E performance in … Read more

Categories STPs, Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 22, treatment delays, waiting times

Capacity to handle 999 calls at risk, warns London ambulance service

Britain’s busiest NHS ambulance service may no longer be able to answer all 999 calls quickly enough because its control … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags ambulance service, safety, staff shortage, understaffing, waiting times

Ambulances stuck at A&E ‘unable to respond quickly to 999 calls’

Full story in The Guardian, 18 February 2018 Patients who have a stroke or heart attack are at risk of … Read more

Categories National STP Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, LEAD STORY, safety, treatment delays, winter crisis

NHS funding overhaul called for by former minister

Full Story in East Anglian Daily Times 2 February 2018 A former health minister has called for an overhaul of … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, STP 25, underfunding, winter crisis

MP says the ‘shambolic’ state of the ambulance service is ‘putting lives at risk on a daily basis’

Full Story in Manchester Evening News 23 January 2018 The ‘shambolic’ state of the North West Ambulance Service was described … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, safety, STP 7, treatment delays, understaffing, waiting times, winter crisis

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

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, STP 23, treatment delays, underfunding, waiting times, winter crisis

This winter 100,000 patients waited 30 minutes in an ambulance.

This winter 100,000 patients waited 30 minutes in an ambulance Full story at The Guardian 18 January 2018 More than … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, NATIONAL Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, staff shortage, treatment delays, 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