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  • 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 loses 9% of public health nurses in a year, triggering fresh workforce warnings

The number of health visitors working in the NHS in England has fallen by almost 9% in the space of … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags children's health, community health, cuts to services, nurses, staff shortage, understaffing

Maternity units across England facing the axe under plans to transform NHS care

Eleven maternity and neonatal units across England are reportedly facing either being axed or merged under plans to transform obstetrics … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Staffing Tags agency staff, cuts to services, Department of Health, maternity, NHS reform, NHS staff, nurses, safety, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

Tens of thousands of new mothers can’t reach a midwife, study finds

Tens of thousands of new mothers a year are seeking help at an A&E unit or GP surgery because they … Read more

Categories Staffing, Infrastructure problems Tags A&E, cuts to services, GPs, hospitals, maternity, NHS staff, nurses, safety, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

Every London NHS trust misses A&E waiting target as winter crisis bites

The full extent of the NHS winter crisis was revealed today as figures showed that every health trust in London … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, deficit, hospitals, NHS staff, nurses, safety, seven day NHS, social care, staff shortage, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Nursing degree applications slump after NHS bursaries abolished

Applications by students in England to nursing and midwifery courses at British universities have fallen by 23% after the government … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags nurses, recruitment, underfunding

Chief nurse says she will ‘step up efforts’ to increase staffing

NHS Improvement was aware of a significant decline in nurse staffing performance across English hospitals and its nursing director has … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care, Rationing Tags NHS staff, nurses, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing

MPs to debate freeze on nurse pay rises today

MPs are to debate the 1% freeze on nurse pay rises later today, following successful petitioning by campaigners. A petition … Read more

Categories Staffing, NHS spending, Rationing Tags NHS staff, nurses, rationing, underfunding

NHS Hospital wards left with ‘dangerously low levels of nurses’

Hospitals are running wards with a dangerously low number of nurses and are using healthcare workers as “stand-ins”, according to a … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care, Rationing Tags cuts to services, deficit, NHS staff, nurses, rationing, recruitment, safety, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

Nursing degree applications have fallen by 20% since the government replaced bursaries with student loans.

The drop in applications for nursing, midwifery and allied health subjects is also twice that of other courses, according to … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staff, nurses, understaffing

Jeremy Hunt has not grasped the scale of workforce issues

Hunt needs to understand that nurses join the profession to nurse, not because they failed to become doctors Health secretary … Read more

Categories Staffing, NHS spending, Rationing Tags Jeremy Hunt, NHS reform, nurses, rationing, recruitment, underfunding, 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