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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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midwives

Midwives receiving less training in key areas of safety and equality, new report warns

A report from the charity Baby Lifeline, says that across England midwives are still not receiving enough essential safety training with … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Quality of care, Safety, Staffing Tags Baby Lifeline, hospitals, maternity, midwifery, midwives, safety, Training, understaffing

Maternity safety compromised in a third of NHS trusts

An increase in funding of £200-£350 million per year is urgently needed to resolve the problems of understaffing endemic in … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Funding, Quality of care, Safety, Staffing Tags House of Commons Health Committee, maternity, midwives, NHS staffing, obstetrics, Royal College of Midwives, understaffed

Nurses ‘are under enormous strain every day of their working lives’

A new report from the King’s Fund, commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing, has called for urgent action to … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Kings Fund, midwives, NHS staff, nurses, Royal College of Nursing, working conditions

Equivalent of one NHS midwife hired per week within the past year

Figures reveal that only 51 full-time NHS midwives have been hired within the past year. Head of Health and Social … Read more

Categories Staffing, Underfunded Tags midwives, NHS workforce statistics, Royal College of Midwives, underfunding, understaffing

Too many baby deaths avoidable, report into NHS finds

Full story The Guardian, 13 November 2018 Seven out of 10 stillbirths, neonatal deaths and babies brain damaged at birth … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Staffing Tags cuts to services, maternity, midwives, safety, staff shortage

NHS in England facing deepening staffing crisis, figures show

Full story in The Guardian, 26 July 2018. The NHS is facing a deepening staffing crisis as hospitals report growing … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Brexit, cuts to services, midwives, nurses, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

Impact of scrapping bursaries must be reviewed, say MPs

Plans to scrap student bursaries must be reviewed to assess their impact on the supply of nursing staff and to … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Staffing Tags bursary, Department of Health, midwives, NHS staff, nurses, understaffing

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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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