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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
    • Take the poll
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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bed cuts

Lack of beds key to A&E and ambulance delays

The crisis in A&E, and the failure of NHS trusts to make any headway in stemming or reducing the waiting … Read more

Categories Emergency Care, Hospitals, Quality of care, Safety, Staffing Tags A&E, ambulance service, bed cuts, bed shortages, emergency care, treatment delays

Mental health crisis pledge broken in England

Government ministers are under fire for breaking a key pledge on mental health after statistics showed that hundreds of patients … Read more

Categories Mental Health Tags bed cuts, mental health, out-of-area placements

Hospitals suspend surgery due to bed shortage

All routine inpatient surgery at Pinderfields Hospital in Yorkshire is to be suspended from 16 August to help the hospital trust … Read more

Categories Cuts to services Tags A&E, bed cuts, bed shortages, cuts to services, hospitals, Pinderfields Hospital, summer crisis, surgery, treatment delays

Closed eyes to Covid reality – Leicester health chiefs push through flawed plan

Another one of the six actual planned new hospitals from Boris Johnson’s “fake forty” new hospitals promised last summer seems set to … Read more

Categories Integrated care, Long-term plan Tags bed cuts, bed shortages, hospitals, ICS, Leicester, National STP

NHS faces winter with ‘2,000 less’ beds than last year

The HSJ reports that a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted that the NHS has ‘significantly less’ beds now … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Winter crisis Tags bed cuts, cuts to services, hospital beds, quality of care, safety, winter crisis

Cumbria cottage hospital bed closures confirmed

Full story from BBC News, 4 April 2018 The closure of inpatient beds at three cottage hospitals in Cumbria has … Read more

Categories STPs Tags bed cuts, community health, cuts to services, hospitals, STP 2

‘No more excuses over management of Braintree Hospital’

Trustees of Braintree Community Hospital will not accept any more excuses from the management over its running of the facility. … Read more

Categories STPs Tags bed cuts, hospitals, safety, stp 26, STPs

Experts blast NHS for lack of consultation over hospital bed closures

Full story in The Sentinel, 27 December 2018 Government advisors have blasted NHS bosses for their ‘reactive, incomplete and ill-focused’ approach to … Read more

Categories STPs Tags bed cuts, community health, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS reform, stp 10

Bed cuts leave NHS ‘overwhelmed’

NHS hospital beds have been cut by more than half in the past 30 years – leaving the health service … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags bed cuts, bed shortages, hospitals, NHS reform, underfunding

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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
    • Take the poll
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE
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