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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
    • Take the poll
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE

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Action on hospital bed shortage: too little, too late?

Last winter In distressing scenes across the country patients waited in vain for ambulances, in hospital corridors and queued in … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Staffing Tags beds, excess deaths, hospital beds, hospitals, NHS staffing, staffing, workforce plan

A chilling warning from Britain’s most senior A&E doctor: Tory winter plan could kill thousands

The Independent reports that the government plans to prepare the NHS for winter have been criticised by the UK’s most senior A&E doctor, … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Staffing, Winter crisis Tags A&E, bed shortage, emergency care, hospital beds, hospitals, safety, waiting times, winter crisis

NHS England says it will provide extra hospital beds in winter

NHS England has said that an extra 5,000 hospital beds will be available this winter to help the NHS in … Read more

Categories Hospitals Tags beds, hospital beds, NHS England, winter crisis

Emergency Care Plan raises more questions

A new plan to rescue struggling NHS emergency services, pledging 800 ambulances, 5000 more hospital beds and bolstering community care has been … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Staffing, Treatment delays Tags emergency care plan, hospital beds, Rishi Sunak, workforce plan, workforce strategy

Ministers complacent as hospital trusts struggle with emergencies and waiting lists

NHS hospitals are under the cosh as they face a rising tide of emergency attendances with a reduced number of … Read more

Categories Infrastructure problems, Treatment delays Tags hospital beds, hospitals, waiting lists

Vanishing front line beds pose threat to NHS future

England’s acute hospitals have lost over 5,600 front line beds – an overall reduction of more than one in twenty … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Funding, Treatment delays Tags hospital beds, hospitals, NHS England

NHS faces winter with ‘2,000 less’ beds than last year

The HSJ reports that a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted that the NHS has ‘significantly less’ beds now … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Winter crisis Tags bed cuts, cuts to services, hospital beds, quality of care, safety, winter crisis

Hospitals battle coronavirus outbreaks as workforce shortages drive cancellation fears

The Independent reports that across the north, hospitals are battling rising numbers of Covid-19 outbreaks that are spreading on their wards, but at … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Safety, Staffing, Treatment delays Tags coronavirus, elective surgery, hospital beds, hospitals, NHS staff, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times

Seriously ill patients spending hours on trolleys

The most seriously ill patients are left waiting for hours in corridors or trolleys as the NHS struggles to find … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Quality of care, Safety, Staffing, Treatment delays, Winter crisis Tags A&E, hospital beds, hospitals, NHS England, NHS staff, nurses, quality of care, safety, staff shortage, treatment delays, winter crisis

Patients in Sunderland sleep overnight in A&E due to bed shortages

A memo leaked to the media and reported in The Guardian revealed that patients have had to sleep overnight in … Read more

Categories Winter crisis Tags A&E, GPs, hospital beds, overcrowding, safety, Sunderland Royal Hospital, understaffing, waiting times, winter crisis

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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
    • Take the poll
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE
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