In a bid to gain extra funding, NHS plans to ration care access
NHS bosses are to meet to discuss plans to ration and delay patients’ access to care, which could set them … Read more
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Budget 2017: NHS trusts given extra £350m for entire winter
Full story in The Independent, 23 November 2017 The NHS has been given £350m to see it through the winter in the … Read more
Hammond’s £1.6bn cash for the NHS is less than half of £4bn needed
Full story in The Guardian, 23 November 2017 Philip Hammond has bowed to intense pressure to give the NHS more money … Read more
NHS chief’s call for £4bn emergency cash injection dismissed by Philip Hammond
Full story in The Guardian, 19 November 2017 Philip Hammond has dismissed calls from the head of the NHS for an … Read more
Chancellor told to make NHS the ‘top priority’ in Budget
Full story in The Independent, 19 November 2017 Two-thirds of the British public say the Chancellor must make the NHS … Read more
Lincolnshire hospitals to postpone non-urgent operations due to squeeze on funding
Full story The Guardian, 16 November 2017 The NHS is under fire for forcing patients who need surgery to wait at least … Read more
May and Hammond’s miserliness pointed out by NHS Chief
Full story in The Guardian, 9 November 2017 Simon Stevens’s warning to Theresa May and Philip Hammond of the risks they are … Read more
Vasectomy funding cuts considered by nine CCGs
Full story at The BBC, 8 November 2017 Nine NHS groups in England are considering or have cut funding for … Read more
The NHS needs £24bn more by 2022
Full story The Guardian, 8 November 2017 The NHS will need up to £24bn more by 2022 than Theresa May plans to give … Read more
NHS bosses issue ‘cry for help’ after years of Government funding cuts
NHS and social care leaders have written to Chancellor Philip Hammond to demand an end to public sector pay restraint, … Read more