NHS ‘could be short of 350,000 staff by 2030’
Full story in The Guardian, 15 November 2018 The staffing crisis in the NHS is deepening so fast that the service could … Read more
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Chancellor’s budget boost to NHS frontline conceals £1bn cut
Full story in The Guardian, 30 October 2018 Public health services and the education and training of nurses and doctors … Read more
Trusts using HCAs in place of nurses
Full story in HSJ, 18 October 2018 NHS trusts recruited a higher percentage of healthcare assistants than nurses over a … Read more
Trust pulls out of contract as hundreds of cancer patients miss two week target
Full story in The HSJ, 1 October 2018 A foundation trust is to withdraw from a dermatology contract after hundreds of … Read more
NHS mental health crisis worsens as 2,000 staff quit per month
Full story in The Guardian, 15 September 2018 Thousands of nurses, therapists and psychiatrists are quitting NHS mental health services, … Read more
100 senior NHS doctors and nurses write open letter to Theresa May: ‘Your funding boost is simply not enough’
Full story in The Mirror, 18 June 2018 Doctors and nurses have insisted Theresa May’s much anticipated healthcare funding boost … Read more
NHS has lost 1,000 GPs since Jeremy Hunt set workforce target
Full story in Pulse, 15 May 2018 The GP workforce in England is continuing to decline, as official statistics reveal … Read more
Ministers urged by Labour to allow NHS to bring in foreign doctors
Full story at The Guardian 2 May 2018 Labour has moved to exploit a cabinet split over foreign doctors being refused … Read more
Demand for beds contributed to biggest North East norovirus outbreak
Full story at Chronicle Live 24 April 2018 An “unprecedented” demand for beds and “old fashioned” hospital facilities “probably” contributed … Read more
Unison says NHS trusts ‘fritter away’ millions of public money outsourcing staff to private companies
Full Story in The Independent 16 April 2018 NHS trusts are spending millions of pounds outsourcing staff to new private … Read more