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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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children’s health

Theresa May refuses FOUR TIMES to oppose the closure of hospital maternity ward during Copeland by-election visit

Theresa May refused FOUR TIMES to oppose the closure of maternity services at a Copeland hospital, during a visit ahead … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, Department of Health, hospitals, maternity, NHS reform, STP 2

Revealed: the NHS plan to close, consolidate or ‘reshape’ 11 maternity units

Eleven maternity and neonatal units across England face closure, consolidation or ‘reshaping’ under plans to transform obstetrics care in the … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, maternity, NHS reform, STP 13, STP 15, STP 17, STP 18, STP 2, STP 24, STP 41, STP 5, STPs

The postcode lottery of new mothers’ mental health services

With one in 10 women developing a mental illness during or after pregnancy, including postpartum psychosis, not all are lucky … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, maternity, mental health, postcode lottery

How the poor get ‘managed’ off waiting lists

Every couple of months, some prominent media personality suggests people should pay upfront for more of their healthcare. This is … Read more

Categories Rationing, Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags children's health, community health, cuts to services, inequality, rationing

Public health nursing roles ‘must be preserved’ to improve UK children’s health

Health visiting and school nursing services “must be preserved” if the UK is to make strides in improving children’s health, … Read more

Categories Rationing, NHS spending, Quality of care Tags children's health, community health, cuts to services, deficit, Public Health, rationing, underfunding

Hospitals put adults on children’s wards to ease NHS crisis

Two hospitals in London have used children’s wards for adults patients to try and ease the current NHS crisis. Croydon … Read more

Categories Staffing, Treatment delays Tags children's health, deficit, hospitals, NHS staff, safety, staff shortage, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, winter crisis

Petition started over fate of Shropshire’s rural maternity units

A petition has been started to urge the Government to intervene in the fate of Shropshire’s rural maternity units.The petition … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CCGs, children's health, cuts to services, maternity, NHS reform, STP 11, STPs

Poorly children diverted as Worcestershire ward shuts

Poorly children had to be diverted to hospitals dozens of miles away after a children’s ward became full. The situation … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, hospitals, treatment delays, winter crisis

Sick children moved as NHS intensive care units run out of beds

Seriously sick children are having to be transported long distances to receive intensive care this weekend because of a lack … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, children's health, cuts to services, hospitals, safety

Shock plans to close A&E, maternity and children’s care at Nuneaton’s hospital

Shock secret plans to close Accident and Emergency, maternity and the children’s unit at the George Eliot Hospital have emerged. They … Read more

Categories STPs, NHS spending, Quality of care Tags A&E, children's health, cuts to services, deficit, doctors, hospitals, maternity, STP 18, STPs
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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