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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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patient 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 Quality of care, Hospitals, 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 Treatment delays, Mental Health, Quality of care, Safety 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 Primary care, Cuts to services, Safety Tags BMA, GPs, patient safety, primary care, Rebuild General Practice, safety

NHS plans to close all local ambulance stations in London

The Guardian has reported that NHS bosses in London plan to shut every local ambulance station in London, prompting fears … Read more

Categories Safety, Cuts to services Tags ambulance service, cuts to services, London Ambulance Service, patient safety, urgent care

Patient safety could be threatened by plans to ‘water down’ training for nurses

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has Plans is pressing ahead with plans to simplify specialist nurse training across the UK … Read more

Categories Safety, Staffing Tags district nurses, NHS staff, NHS training, nurses, Nursing and Midwifery Council, patient safety, quality of care, Training

Higher weekend deaths in hospital not due to lack of doctors, landmark study shows

A landmark study has shown that the higher mortality rates among weekend patients is not due to a lack of … Read more

Categories Safety, Staffing Tags community care, doctors, hospitals, patient safety, primary care, safety, staffing levels

Urgent calls to fix “incoherent” health and social care staffing

A build-up in staff shortages in both the NHS and social care due to mistakes made over the previous decade … Read more

Categories Staffing, Safety Tags NHS staffing, NHS workforce, patient safety, People Plan, safety, Workforce crisis, workforce plan

Study in The Lancet claims having minimum nurse to patient ratios cuts risk of death

New research, published in The Lancet, examining the effect of minimum nurse-to-patient ratios has found it reduces the risks of … Read more

Categories Safety, Staffing Tags hospitals, NHS staff, nurse to patient ratio, nurses, patient safety, quality of care, safety, staffing levels

PHE report: agency staff spreading Covid-19 between care homes

The Guardian reports that an unpublished government study by Public Health England (PHE) has found that temporary care workers transmitted … Read more

Categories Coronavirus, Social Care, Staffing Tags care staff, coronavirus, patient safety, social care, social care staff, zero hours
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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