Bid to stall progress of NHS plan to cut at least £530m off budgets
A bid is being launched tonight to stall plans which could lead to more than £530m being slashed from NHS … Read more
National STP
Significant changes to health care services are no longer hidden
The deliberate hiding from public view of STP changes to how and where patients are cared for in Hampshire is … Read more
Trusts with dangerous staffing levels face NHS Improvement intervention
Health economies and NHS providers’ plans for major workforce changes will be subject to NHS Improvement checks on safety, its … Read more
Why the big secret over plans to transform NHS services?
Proposed consolidation of neonatal services could be the reason sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) were drawn up without GPs like … Read more
This jargon-filled NHS report masks £276m of brutal cuts that will hit us all
Plans to axe £267m from the local NHS budget by 2020 were today slammed as “opaque,” “incomprehensible” and “secretive” as … Read more
Regional leaders plan hospital contract shake-up
Regional health leaders are drawing up plans to abandon payment by results based on national tariffs and move to a … Read more
NHS shake-up: £300m deficit if nothing done to transform healthcare
The radical plan aims to prevent ‘duplication’ of services at different hospitals, reduce outpatient appointments by 15 per cent and … Read more
Care for elderly ‘close to collapse’ across UK as council funding runs out
Theresa May is under intense pressure from senior doctors and a powerful cross-party alliance of politicians to avert a collapse … Read more
GP urgent home visits to ease A&E crisis
GPs are under pressure to provide emergency home visits to ease the crisis in overstretched A&E departments, NHS documents reveal. … Read more
STPs risk ‘starving services of resources’
Ministers have been urged to sort out the ‘mess’ of the NHS STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) after BMA analysis … Read more