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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
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  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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patient safety

Two maternity services downgraded to inadequate by CQC

Maternity services at University Hospital North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital have been downgraded from “good” to “inadequate” in Care … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Safety, Staffing Tags CQC, downgrading, inadequate, maternity services, patient safety

Most NHS staff say they don’t have enough time to spend with patients

In polling YouGov carried out for the Guardian most NHS staff think they have too little time to help patients … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staff, patient safety, staffing

Tory ‘neglect’ blamed for 3.6m abandoned calls to NHS 111 in England

An analysis by the House of Commons Library, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, has found that patients contacting NHS 111 … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Funding Tags emergency care, NHS 111, patient safety, urgent care

Senior UK health official warns of ‘unsafe and undignified’ care due to A&E delays

Ian Higginson, a vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, has warned about attempts to “discredit” figures estimating that … Read more

Categories Emergency Care, Hospitals, Treatment delays, Winter crisis Tags A&E, hospitals, patient safety, safety, treatment delays, underfunding, winter crisis

Government policy is a greater threat to patient safety than striking nurses

While ministers play up the risks to health posed by nurses and ambulance workers striking over staffing levels and pay, … Read more

Categories Safety Tags NHS staff, nurses strike, patient safety, safety, staff ratios, understaffing

National State of Patient Safety 2022 – report by Institute of Global Health Innovation

Keeping patients safe during their care and treatment should be at the heart of any health system, including the NHS. … Read more

Categories Safety Tags Academic reports, Imperial College, patient safety, safety

‘Single biggest threat to patients’: 200,000 harmed by ambulance delays this year

Almost 200,000 patients have come to harm this year because of ambulance delays, according to estimates, as NHS leaders are forced to act on the “unprecedented … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Quality of care, Safety Tags ambulance service, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, CQC, patient safety, transport services

Crisis in the NHS caused by Tory underfunding not Covid, say BMA

The BMA has drawn up a major dossier that refutes Sajid Javid’s claims that the pressures on the NHS were … Read more

Categories Funding, Hospitals, Quality of care, Safety Tags BMA, patient safety, quality of care, Sajid Javid, underfunding

Hundreds of mentally ill prisoners denied urgent treatment in England

A joint investigation by the Guardian and BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 programme,  has found that hundreds of severely … Read more

Categories Mental Health, Quality of care, Safety, Treatment delays Tags mental health, mental health crisis, patient safety, prison healthcare, psychiatric hospitals, treatment delays

GPs call for a Rebuild of General Practice

A lack of investment and workforce planning stretching back years now means that general practice is unsafe for many patients … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, Primary care, Safety Tags BMA, GPs, patient safety, primary care, Rebuild General Practice, safety
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • When ‘record’ spending is nowhere near enough
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Q&A: The increase in NI and funding for the NHS and social care
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The truth behind Boris Johnson’s money for the NHS
    • New NHS funding – is it enough?
      • Expert’s consensus on NHS Long-term Plan
    • Will the longterm plan end waves of crisis in the NHS?
    • Services
      • NHS VIDEOS
      • GP services
      • A&E waiting times
      • Ambulance services
      • The midwives view
      • Physiotherapy
      • Mental health
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Is the NHS funding crisis of our own making?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Closing the NHS blackhole
    • 5 reasons why the NHS is affordable
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Sign the call for more funding
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
    • Take the poll
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Public health funding “below 2015/16 levels”
    • Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?
    • A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven
    • PFI keeps coming back for more
    • Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE