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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?
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      • 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?
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    • 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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primary care

Study finds GPs in deprived areas able to offer significantly less patient contact

A study published in BMJ Open reports that GP practices in more socioeconomically deprived areas would need support to increase … Read more

Categories GPs Tags GP surgeries, GPs, primary care

Why is charging to see a GP or attend A&E a bad idea?

Whenever reform of the NHS is discussed the possibility that payments to visit your GP or attend A&E is nearly … Read more

Categories NHS reform Tags A&E, charges, GP surgeries, NHS charges, NHS@75, primary care

Can pharmacies pick up the strain on the NHS? Is it a good idea?

Patients will soon be able to get prescriptions for medicines to treat seven minor illnesses under Government proposals designed to … Read more

Categories Pharmacy Tags GPs, pharmacy, Pharmacy First, primary care

GPs angered by new imposition of new contract

NHS England has enraged GPs by imposing a new contract, which includes more stipulations around access, but no extra funding.  GP leaders … Read more

Categories GPs Tags GP contract, GPs, primary care

NHS England halts ‘pioneer’ health centres due to lack of funds

HSJ reports that a national plan to build new ‘super’ primary care hubs in six areas has been halted with … Read more

Categories Community Care, GPs, Integrated care Tags GPs, integrated care, integrated care system, primary care

Controversial primary care mergers in Yorkshire

This month has seen approval for major changes in GP provision in South Yorkshire with the South Yorkshire ICB giving … Read more

Categories GPs, Integrated care Tags GPs, integrated care, integrated care boards, mergers, primary care

Bypassing your GP – self referral, good idea?

The Labour leader, Kier Starmer, in a piece published by the Telegraph and on the BBC last weekend said his party was … Read more

Categories GPs Tags elective surgery, GPs, primary care, self-referral, waiting lists

Pulse investigation: The truth about GP access

What the media says about GP access Dr Therese Coffey’s time as health secretary was nasty, brutish and short for GPs. … Read more

Categories GPs Tags GPs, primary care

Patients set to suffer as primary care buckles

With GPs seemingly under fire from all sides – offered up as a diversionary punch-bag by some in the media … Read more

Categories Community Care, GPs, Primary care, Staffing Tags GPs, primary care, staff shortages, Workforce crisis

Weak Coffey plan won’t stimulate crumbling NHS

Therese Coffey’s much vaunted new plan for the NHS, ridiculously titled Our Plan For Patients is neither new nor a plan. It … Read more

Categories GPs, Primary care Tags GPs, Pharmacists, Plan for Patients, primary care, Therese Coffey
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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
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