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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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Why has the NHS deficit ballooned? One word: understaffing

Why are NHS finances in such a mess? The biggest reason is staffing – or, to be more precise, understaffing. … Read more

Categories Debt, Staffing Tags deficit, hospitals, NHS staff, nurses, understaffing, Why we need the NHS?

A failed firebreak – Anita Charlesworth

Life has few certainties, but it is beyond doubt that NHS providers were mired in a financial black hole during … Read more

Categories Debt Tags deficit, Health Foundation

NHS managers are being forced to lie to the public – Carol Ackroyd

This latest “Transformation” will kill the NHS if we let it. Local managers are being forced to slash NHS budgets … Read more

Categories Debt, Infrastructure problems, Quality of care Tags CCGs, cuts to services, deficit, Department of Health, hospitals, NHS reform, STP

NHS in England reveals £2.45bn record deficit

The NHS in England has run up a record deficit of £2.45bn – the biggest overspend in its history – … Read more

Categories Debt Tags deficit, Department of Health, hospitals, NHS England, NHS trusts, underfunding

NHS deficit damaging services to patients, says UNISON

Commenting on new figures showing a deficit of £2.45bn in NHS finances, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “This … Read more

Categories Debt, Quality of care Tags deficit, underfunding, UNISON

How does this year’s NHS budget compare historically? – John Appleby

Jeremy Hunt has claimed recently that in 2016/17 the NHS will receive the sixth biggest funding increase in its history. … Read more

Categories Debt, NHS spending Tags deficit, Department of Health, Kings Fund, underfunding

One fifth of consultants state that rota gaps are causing ‘significant problems for patient safety’

The latest census of consultant physicians and higher specialty trainees in the UK (2014/15) produced by the Royal College of Physicians, Royal … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags deficit, safety, treatment delays, understaffing

NHS spending: squeezed as never before – by John Appleby

Next month the government will set out its plans for public service spending through to 2020. The indications are that … Read more

Categories Debt, NHS spending Tags deficit, Department of Health, Kings Fund, underfunding

Stealth cuts to hospitals push the NHS into the red

Cuts to tariffs – the prices paid to hospitals for different medical procedures – are starving health trusts of income … Read more

Categories Debt, NHS spending Tags cuts to services, deficit, hospitals, TUC
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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