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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
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NHS staffing

No peace for Streeting as battle over Physician Associates continues

The notorious Labour Party conference bureaucracy may have successfully shunted a Socialist Health Association motion on Physician Associates off the prioritised agenda … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Labour Party, NHS staffing, physician associates, Wes Streeting

Emergency unit faced closure amid ‘significant staffing crisis’

HSJ has seen an email that shows managers wanted to temporarily close Whipps Cross University Hospital Trust same day emergency … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staffing, staffing crisis, urgent care

Action on hospital bed shortage: too little, too late?

Last winter In distressing scenes across the country patients waited in vain for ambulances, in hospital corridors and queued in … Read more

Categories Staffing, Hospitals Tags beds, excess deaths, hospital beds, hospitals, NHS staffing, staffing, workforce plan

Worst-ever crisis set to get worse

The elephant in the room during much of the interminable and vacuous “debates” between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak competing … Read more

Categories Funding, NHS reform, Staffing, Underfunded Tags funding, Liz Truss, NHS in crisis, NHS staffing, underfunding, Workforce crisis

NHS pay offer: ministerial influence trumps the evidence

The NHS Pay Review Body is supposed to be an independent body, and in some ways it is; but in … Read more

Categories pay, Staffing Tags NHS Pay Review Body, NHS staffing, pay

Stressed NHS staff in England quit at record 400 a week, fuelling fears over care quality

A new analysis of the workforce crisis in the NHS shows that a record number of more than 400 workers … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags burn-out, coronavirus, NHS staffing, PTSD, The Peoples Panel

Nursing profession ‘well past the point of crisis’, finds report

A new report has revealed dire shortages in the nursing workforce – even before the pandemic. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags hospitals, NHS staffing, nurses, Royal College of Nursing

RCN finds over half of nurses consider leaving their jobs

The Royal College of Nursing has published its findings from their employment survey which has found that six in ten … Read more

Categories Staffing, pay Tags funding, NHS staffing, nurses, Royal College of Nursing, staffing

Leap in mental health absences among NHS staff

Data collected by FirstCare has found that the number of NHS staff absent from work because of their mental health … Read more

Categories Staffing, Mental Health Tags coronavirus, mental health, NHS staffing, staff shortages, staff wellbeing, staffing

The Health and Care Bill – a chance to solve the NHS staffing crisis?

Despite the headline-grabbing challenges of the pandemic, the problem of staff shortages – following more than a decade of underfunding … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Health and Care Bill, long-term plan, NHS staffing, staff shortages, understaffing
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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