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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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community health

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

Health visitors struggling with ‘dangerously high’ caseloads

Full story in The Guardian, 23 September 2018 Health visitors are struggling to care for families properly because they have … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Staffing Tags children's health, community health, cuts to services, health visitors, Public Health, understaffing

Mental health patients sent 300 miles from home due to lack of beds

Full story in The Guardian, 17 September 2018 Patients with serious mental health problems are being sent more than 300 … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags community health, cuts to services, mental health, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing

Plans to close three acute stroke units revealed

Full story in HSJ, 17 September 2018 Under the preferred option, set out by commissioners, Medway Foundation Trust will lose its … Read more

Categories National STP Tags community health, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS reform, STP 32, stroke care

Major reconfiguration could be referred to Hancock

Full story in the HSJ, 18 September 2018 A major reconfiguration of services faces referral to the health and social … Read more

Categories National STP Tags community health, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS reform, stp 26

CCG to tender billion pound community services contract

Full story in HSJ, 17 September 2018 A community services contract, worth £1.7bn, is set to be procured by commissioners … Read more

Categories National STP, Quality of care Tags CCGs, community health, STP 39

Tory cuts leave alcohol addiction services at breaking point warns Labour, as figures show record low in treatment

Full story in The Independent, 13 September 2018 Cuts to council budgets for addiction services have led to lowest number of people … Read more

Categories Rationing, Quality of care Tags addiction services, community health, cuts to services, Public Health, waiting times

‘Grossly underfunded’ practices unable to compete with online providers, warn GPs

Full story in The Guardian, 30 August 2018 Private online providers are creating competition between NHS practices that is threatening … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing Tags community health, digital health, GPs, primary care, Privatisation, waiting times

Nearly 8 million people providing care for family members without pay

Full story in The Guardian, 16 July 2018. The number of people caring for a family member has reached 7.6 … Read more

Categories Social Care Tags community health, Elderly care, social care, underfunding

Smokers forced to quit on their own after funding cuts

Full story in The Guardian, 15 July 2018. Thousands of smokers are being left without the support they need to … Read more

Categories Rationing Tags community health, cuts to services, Public Health, rationing, underfunding
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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