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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

Department of Health

‘Shameful’ pace of STP rollout risks financial meltdown, warns former NHS commissioning chief

The timescale imposed by NHS England for developing sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) has been condemned as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘shameful’ … Read more

Categories STPs, NHS spending, Quality of care Tags Department of Health, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform, STPs

Hospital overcrowding caused by ‘political maladministration’, say MPs

Hospitals have become dangerously full and discharge patients too soon as a direct result of “political maladministration” by successive governments, … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Infrastructure problems Tags community health, Department of Health, GPs, hospitals, safety, social care

Junior doctors take contract fight to high court

Junior doctors in England have gone to the High Court to try to stop the government imposing a new contract. … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Staffing Tags Department of Health, High Court, junior doctors, Recent news

NHS chiefs warn that hospitals in England are on the brink of collapse

The body that represents hospitals across England has issued a startling warning that the NHS is close to breaking point … Read more

Categories Debt, Quality of care, Rationing, Staffing, Treatment delays Tags cuts to services, Department of Health, hospitals, NHS Providers, seven day NHS, underfunding, understaffing

Health education bosses miss GP training target

Health Education England has failed to reach its target of delivering 3,250 doctors in GP training by 2016, despite having … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Department of Health, GPs, HEE, recruitment, understaffing

Combined Performance Summary, July 2016

Performance statistics for July 2016 were released at 9.30am on Thursday 8 September 2016 covering the following: the NHS 111 … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Rationing, Staffing, Treatment delays Tags A&E, Department of Health, NHS England, treatment delays

‘Winter of discontent’ warnings over latest NHS performance figures

Key measures of NHS services in England have continued to decrease, prompting warnings that providers are increasingly struggling to deliver … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care Tags A&E, cuts to services, Department of Health, underfunding, understaffing, winter crisis

STPs: Radical local modernisation plans or the end of the NHS as we know it?

To some, they are bold, painful, inevitably controversial but nevertheless necessary local blueprints designed to save the NHS in England, … Read more

Categories STPs, Debt, NHS spending Tags community health, cuts to services, deficit, Department of Health, hospitals, National STP, STPs

NHS ‘in perpetual winter of Narnia’ as waiting list reaches record 3.9m

The NHS is missing so many of its key performance targets that it has entered “the perpetual winter of Narnia”, … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care, Staffing Tags A&E, Department of Health, hospitals, surgery, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, waiting times, winter crisis

Junior doctors suspend planned five-day strike in September

Junior doctors have called off the first of their planned series of five-day strikes after growing alarm from senior doctors … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Department of Health, doctors, Jeremy Hunt, junior doctors, Recent news, strike
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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