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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
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cuts to services

Mental health services breaking down under pressure

New research commissioned by the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network shows the cost of mental ill health for England was a staggering … Read more

Categories Mental Health Tags cuts to services, mental health, mental health crisis

Children’s emergency mental health referrals in England soar by 53%

NHS data shows that the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare in England has soared by more than … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Mental Health Tags cuts to services, mental health, waiting lists

Delays to mental health treatment in England ‘putting more children in care’

Delays to NHS treatment have led to an increasing number of emotionally troubled children being taken into care because their … Read more

Categories Mental Health Tags children's services, cuts to services, mental health, social care, waiting times

Winter crisis starts early, as Trust chiefs urged to lobby Tory MPs

It’s not even winter yet, but the NHS is already in a major beds crisis and bracing for the worst … Read more

Categories Funding Tags cuts to services, funding, NHS Confederation, staff shortages

NHS to face unprecedented funding squeeze to 2025

HSJ reports that the NHS in England is set to face a multiyear funding squeeze for the first time since … Read more

Categories Funding, Deficit Tags cuts to services, funding reduction, inflation, underfunding

Can we afford cuts to health spending?

As Rishi Sunak considers a tightening of public sector spending, evidence of the cost of ill health to the nation’s … Read more

Categories Funding Tags cuts to services, funding, NHS Confederation, Public Health

70 organisations object to moves to “weaken” public health measures

Liz Truss’s plans for the UK’s anti-obesity strategy, which could see the axing of many measures to help reduce the … Read more

Categories Public Health, Underfunded Tags Councils, cuts to services, local authorities, obesity, Public Health, The Obesity Alliance, weight management services

DIY dentistry on the rise as 90% of NHS practices not seeing new patients

The director of the Healthwatch England watchdog has warned that incidents of DIY dentistry, including people using superglue to stick … Read more

Categories Dentistry, Cuts to services, Funding Tags cuts to services, dentistry, rationing

Cuts to hospital discharge programme fuel crisis

NHS England’s response to the new austerity embodied in Rishi Sunak’s spending review from last autumn has been to slash … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Funding, Hospitals, Social Care Tags community care, cuts to services, hospital discharge, Hospital Discharge Programme, hospitals

Javid pushes ahead with changes to primary care

Sajid Javid has announced plans for big changes in primary care, based on a report from the think tank Policy Exchange. … Read more

Categories Primary care Tags community care, cuts to services, GP surgeries, GPs, primary care
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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