Promised £8bn extra for NHS is not enough, says hospitals boss
Theresa May will have to rip up the government’s financial plans for the NHS and commit more than the promised … Read more
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Revealed: Controversial NHS blueprint to overhaul Merseyside’s hospitals
NHS bosses today unveiled controversial plans for hospital mergers and A&E downgrades as a long-awaited report on the future of … Read more
Investment and support for general practice must be the focus of local STPs
The RCGP has responded to the King’s Fund report on Sustainability and Transformation Plans, published today. Professor Maureen Baker, RCGP … Read more
NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’
NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found. Full details … Read more
NHS trusts on course to overshoot budgets by £850m, figures suggest
NHS hospital trusts are on course to overshoot their budgets by £850m this year, more than three times the deficit … Read more
Revealed: The CCGs cutting mental health budgets
More than a fifth of commissioners are failing to raise mental health spending by as much as directed by NHS … Read more
Can Simon Stevens’ Sustainability and Transformation Plans save the NHS? – The Centre for Health and Public Interest
Predictions that the NHS is facing disaster have been issued so often that people no longer pay much attention. This … Read more
Another STP admits to ‘serious reservations’ about process and plan
A sustainability and transformation plan (STP) footprint in the north of England has become the latest to publish its plan, … Read more
Another ‘secretive’ mega shake-up of the NHS is being carried out by stealth, warns Unite
Another mega NHS shake-up, with a serious threat to patient services, is underway by stealth, Unite, the country’s largest union, … Read more
NHS high-risk maintenance backlog increases by 70%
NHS trusts are increasingly struggling to address serious maintenance concerns with their estate, new figures from NHS Digital show. The … Read more