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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

NHS spending

The government is tinkering around the edges of the mental health crisis facing young people – Barbara Keeley

More children are developing mental health problems as the problem with funding children’s mental health services rises. As it stands, … Read more

Categories Mental Health, Deficit, NHS spending, Underfunded Tags children's health, cuts to services, deficit, mental health, NHS England, NHS spending, rationing, underfunding

Children’s hospice forced to close as NHS funding falls

Grace’s Place, a children’s hospice in Bury, has been forced to close as the NHS funding was only covering a … Read more

Categories Underfunded, Cuts to services, NHS spending Tags children's health, children's hospice, cuts to services, NHS England, NHS Funding, NHS spending, underfunding

Short termism is a threat to the NHS – Anita Charlesworth

“The £20bn cash injection for the NHS in England is ring-fenced for front-line health services, which is mainly the wage … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Long-term plan, NHS spending, Staffing Tags cuts to services, deficit, NHS England, NHS spending, support services, underfunding, understaffing

New regime revealed for trusts with biggest financial holes

The 30 worst financially performing NHS trusts will be subject to a new regulatory regime as part of plans to … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Debt Tags community health, deficit, hospitals, long-term plan, NHS reform, NHS spending

Theresa May’s NHS pledge decried as sticking plaster

Full Story in The Guardian, 18 June 2018 Theresa May’s plans to increase NHS funding by 3.4% is a “sticking … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags deficit, Department of Health, Health Foundation, Jeremy Hunt, NHS England, NHS spending, Theresa May, underfunding

Higher consulting spending makes NHS trusts less efficient, study suggests

National Health Service (NHS) trusts which hire management consultants in order to reduce expenditure do not end up saving money, … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags deficit, NHS England, NHS spending, underfunding

NHS holds on to top spot in healthcare survey

The NHS has been judged the best, safest and most affordable healthcare system out of 11 countries analysed and ranked by experts … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags NHS, NHS spending, quality of care

Millions in taxpayers’ money spent on private consultants to plan NHS cuts

The country’s biggest accountancy firms have made at least £17.6m to date helping the NHS draw up plans that will … Read more

Categories NHS spending, STPs Tags NHS spending, STP 22

NHS needs 3.5 per cent annual funding increase, economists predict

New economic projections from the Office of Budget Responsibility suggest the NHS requires real terms funding increases of 3.5 per … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags NHS spending, Nuffield Trust, OBR, underfunding

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We are a voluntary organisation, not allied to any political party and funded by supporters from the health professions and the general public. We have been campaigning in support of the NHS since 1989.

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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