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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?
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    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
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Theresa May refuses FOUR TIMES to oppose the closure of hospital maternity ward during Copeland by-election visit

Theresa May refused FOUR TIMES to oppose the closure of maternity services at a Copeland hospital, during a visit ahead … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, Department of Health, hospitals, maternity, NHS reform, STP 2

Revealed: the NHS plan to close, consolidate or ‘reshape’ 11 maternity units

Eleven maternity and neonatal units across England face closure, consolidation or ‘reshaping’ under plans to transform obstetrics care in the … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, maternity, NHS reform, STP 13, STP 15, STP 17, STP 18, STP 2, STP 24, STP 41, STP 5, STPs

Tens of thousands of new mothers can’t reach a midwife, study finds

Tens of thousands of new mothers a year are seeking help at an A&E unit or GP surgery because they … Read more

Categories Staffing, Infrastructure problems Tags A&E, cuts to services, GPs, hospitals, maternity, NHS staff, nurses, safety, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

The postcode lottery of new mothers’ mental health services

With one in 10 women developing a mental illness during or after pregnancy, including postpartum psychosis, not all are lucky … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, maternity, mental health, postcode lottery

Cumbrian ambulance boss warns maternity transfer plans are ‘not clinically safe’

Ambulance boss Derek Cartright does not believe controversial plans to transfer women more than 40 miles while in labour are … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, maternity, NHS reform, STP 2, STPs

20,000 sign petition to halt Poole Hospital A&E and maternity closure plans

A petition to save A&E and the maternity unit at Poole Hospital has gathered more than 20,000 signatures. Poole resident … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, CCGs, cuts to services, hospitals, maternity, NHS reform, STP 41

Petition started over fate of Shropshire’s rural maternity units

A petition has been started to urge the Government to intervene in the fate of Shropshire’s rural maternity units.The petition … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CCGs, children's health, cuts to services, maternity, NHS reform, STP 11, STPs

More services under threat at the Horton

The plan to radically change the way local NHS services are delivered has confirmed that acute services at Banbury’s Horton … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, cuts to services, hospitals, maternity, NHS reform, STP 44, STPs

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to close Integrative Care beds

Scotland’s largest health board has voted to close inpatient beds at a Glasgow site which previously operated as the Homeopathic … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Rationing Tags cuts to services, deficit, hospitals, maternity, rationing, underfunding

Shock plans to close A&E, maternity and children’s care at Nuneaton’s hospital

Shock secret plans to close Accident and Emergency, maternity and the children’s unit at the George Eliot Hospital have emerged. They … Read more

Categories STPs, NHS spending, Quality of care Tags A&E, children's health, cuts to services, deficit, doctors, hospitals, maternity, STP 18, STPs
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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