STPs ‘far from perfect’ but NHS has no plan B, warns think tank
Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have failed to involve frontline clinicians or patients and have been mired in confusion, a … Read more
Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have failed to involve frontline clinicians or patients and have been mired in confusion, a … Read more
NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved … Read more
NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found. Full details … Read more
Health services in Lancashire and South Cumbria will face a projected £575m funding gap by 2021 unless extensive changes are … Read more
A senior councillor says he will publish a confidential plan for the future of healthcare in Leicestershire himself if NHS … Read more
Somerset’s sustainability and transformation plan sets the goal of implementing an “accountable care system” by April 2019. The plan, which … Read more
Claims that Lewisham Hospital A&E could be at risk of closure again because of a shortfall in local NHS funding … Read more
More than a fifth of commissioners are failing to raise mental health spending by as much as directed by NHS … Read more
Predictions that the NHS is facing disaster have been issued so often that people no longer pay much attention. This … Read more
Plans to downgrade three A&E units in Cheshire and Merseyside have been considered as part of NHS budget cuts, according … Read more