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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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Brexit

No-deal Brexit could see ops cancelled, NHS trust says

NHS trusts could “quickly run out of vital medicine” in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the chief executive of … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags Brexit, hospitals, patient safety, surgery, treatment delays, 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

Care job vacancies in England rise to 110,000

Full story on BBC, 24 July 2018 About 110,000 jobs in adult care in England are left vacant, a rise … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Brexit, community health, social care, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

NHS vacancies a ‘national emergency’

Full story in BBC News: 11 September 2018 The shortage of NHS staff in England has started worsening again, official … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags Brexit, nurses, safety, staff shortage, understaffing

NHS in England facing deepening staffing crisis, figures show

Full story in The Guardian, 26 July 2018. The NHS is facing a deepening staffing crisis as hospitals report growing … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Brexit, cuts to services, midwives, nurses, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

Ministers urged by Labour to allow NHS to bring in foreign doctors

Full story at The Guardian 2 May 2018 Labour has moved to exploit a cabinet split over foreign doctors being refused … Read more

Categories Staffing, Infrastructure problems, Quality of care Tags Brexit, Department of Health, NHS England, NHS staff, Public Health, staff shortage, understaffing

One in 11 posts unfilled in the NHS in England

Full story at The Guardian 21 February 2018   One in 11 posts in NHS England are currently unfilled, equivalent to almost 100,000 … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Brexit, doctors, NHS England, nurses, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing, 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

Large number of EU nurses and midwives leaving UK since Brexit vote

Full story in the Guardian, 2 November 2017 The number of nurses and midwives coming to work in Britain from … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Brexit, NHS staff, staff shortage, understaffing

While all eyes look to Brexit, our NHS is about to collapse

rexit casts its shroud over everything. The no-dealers grow more wild-eyed by the day; though sterling drops, prices rise. Chris … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Academic reports, Brexit, Kings Fund, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing
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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