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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
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Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge

The publication of the first-ever NHS long-term workforce plan in June 2023 received a mixed reception. There was relief that a workforce … Read more

Categories Long-term plan, Staffing Tags long-term plan, long-term workforce plan, NHS staff

Hewitt review misses need for far reaching change

Richard Bourne discusses how past policy failings still haunt the current health policy debate, as he explores the changes proposed … Read more

Categories Funding, Long-term plan, Management, NHS reform Tags Chris Ham review, funding, Hewitt review, integrated care, long-term plan, NHS reform, social care

Leak reveals priorities of long-term plan refresh

HSJ has seen a leaked document that states that a drive to ‘transform’ access to urgent, emergency and planned care … Read more

Categories Long-term plan Tags digital health, long-term plan, NHS England

Further delays expected for promised ‘new hospitals’

The government has cut back the funding for eight promised ‘new hospitals’ once again, according to a report by the … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Infrastructure problems, Long-term plan, Underfunded Tags hospitals, infrastructure funding, infrastructure problems, long-term plan, underfunding

New NHS organisations launched but already in deficit

As the July lift-off day for so-called Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) draws closer there is little sign anywhere in the … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Integrated care, Long-term plan Tags deficit, hospitals, integrated care system, long-term plan, underfunding

‘Integrated care’ set to be a system of austerity and crisis

Following the passage through Parliament of the Health and Care Bill, 42 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are set to become … Read more

Categories Health & Care Bill 2021, Integrated care, Long-term plan, Underfunded Tags community care, hospitals, ICS, integrated care systems, long-term plan, underfunding

NHS told to cut £500m in spending

NHS England has been asked by the government to reduce core NHS funding by hundreds of millions of pounds in … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Funding, Long-term plan Tags coronavirus, funding, funding settlement, long-term plan, Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid

More flaws exposed in ‘integrated care’

New study concludes: No shared understanding of what integration means Pilots achieved “only mixed results” and made little progress on … Read more

Categories Integrated care, Long-term plan, Management Tags Health and Care Bill, ICS, integrated care, integrated care system, long-term plan

ICSs fail to recruit chief executives

Five integrated care systems in the Midlands have failed to appoint a chief executive designate for their integrated care boards. … Read more

Categories Integrated care, Long-term plan Tags ICS, integrated care board, integrated care system, long-term plan

Health and care bill takes deep flaws into committee stage

As the Health and Care Bill moves into the committee stage where the detail of the bill is closely examined many people … Read more

Categories Health & Care Bill 2021 Tags Health & Care Bill 2021, long-term plan
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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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