‘Stress affects almost 50% of England’s midwives’
Nearly half of midwives in England suffered work-related stress in the previous 12 months, according to the latest NHS Staff … Read more
NHS England
A perfect storm: an impossible climate for NHS providers’ finances?
The NHS in England is currently halfway through the most austere decade in its history. In the 2015 comprehensive spending … Read more
NHS spend on general practice falls to 7.2% from April, despite uplift
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will fail to deliver this year on his promise to increase the proportion of funding going … Read more
30 CCGs in deficit by end of financial year
Thirty CCGs are set to end 2015/16 with a combined deficit of half a billion pounds, NHS England board papers … Read more
The King’s fund 2016 : What the planning guidance means for the NHS
At a time when the NHS is planning for 2016/17 and beyond, this briefing considers some of the key publications … Read more
East Sussex budget cuts and 3.99% tax rise backed
Spending plans that will see about £20m of cuts and a 3.99% increase in council tax have been approved. Conservative-run … Read more
Surge in privatisation threatening free NHS treatment, unions say
With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of slide to US-style system in which level … Read more
BDA General Secretary joins health union leaders in condemning the Government’s failed NHS privatisation experiment
In a joint letter to the Guardian published on 8th February , leaders of unions representing over one million health … Read more
NHS will struggle to cope this winter, new analysis finds
Just 3.6 per cent of patients took up over a third of all bed capacity in acute hospitals in England … Read more
The Spending Review: what does it mean for health and social care?
This briefing provides an independent assessment of where the Spending Review leaves the NHS and social care. Now that the … Read more