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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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ambulance service

Official NHS figures show East and North Herts among worst for A&E waiting times

Full Story in Hertfordshire Mercury 15 January 2018 You are more likely to wait too long for emergency treatment in … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 25, treatment delays, waiting times

Around 3,000 people left waiting in ambulances outside A&Es in Surrey for over 30 minutes at the end of 2017

Full story at Get Surrey 15 January 2018 Nearly 3,000 patients were left waiting in an ambulance outside A&Es in … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 33, waiting times, winter crisis

More EU27 staff quit as the Brexit impacts continue.

Full story at The Guardian 13 January 2018 Increasing numbers of European Union-trained ambulance staff are quitting the NHS, raising … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags ambulance service, Brexit, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing, waiting times

The longest A&E waiting times in all of England is at Harlow’s Princess Alexandra Hospital

Full story in Essex Live 11 January 2018 December saw Harlow’s Princess Alexandra Hospital record the worst waiting times of … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Infrastructure problems, Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, safety, STP 25, treatment delays, underfunding, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Targets Being Missed as Hospital Patient Transfer Times More Than Doubled Over Christmas

Full Story at B Journal 10 January 2018 Targets are being missed as patients in Brighton & Hove are waiting … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 33, waiting times, winter crisis

Ambulances waiting for hours outside Merseyside A&E

Full Story in Liverpool Echo 8 January 2018 Ambulances were left queuing for more than an hour outside Merseyside A&Es … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, safety, STP 8, treatment delays, waiting times, winter crisis

‘Extreme pressure’ leads ambulance trust to turn to private services

Full story in the NHE, 4 January 2018 The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) has revealed it was forced to … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Staffing Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, Privatisation, safety, treatment delays, underfunding, waiting times, winter crisis

‘Angry’ patients forced to wait for treatment due to backlog at Broomfield Hospital

Full story in Essex Live 2 January 2018 Around 12 to 13 ambulances from the East of England Ambulance Service … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, stp 26, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Nurses and GPs to be ‘first responders’ to emergency calls as NHS winter crisis deepens

Full story in The Independent, 30 December 2017 Nurses and GPs are to be sent to answer 999 calls ahead of ambulance crews … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, Elderly care, hospitals, nurses, safety, winter crisis

Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital fails four-hour A&E waiting target on Boxing Day

Full Story at DevonLive  29 December 2017 A Devon hospital fell significantly short of the four-hour A&E wait target on … Read more

Categories Quality of care, STPs Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 37, STPs, 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