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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
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Privatisation

Private ambulances increasingly used by NHS ‘putting patients at risk’, damning report finds

A damning report has warned that the increasing use of private ambulances is leading to examples of poor care, including a dialysis … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, NHS England, Privatisation

Scrap Laws Driving Privitisation of Health Service, say NHS Bosses

NHS England calls for end to rules under which firms have won £10.5bn of contracts NHS bosses have urged ministers … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags NHS England, Privatisation

GP campaign group calls for Babylon boycott until ‘full impact’ is known

A grassroots GP campaign group has called on GPs to boycott working with Babylon until the independent evaluation of its … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Babylon, bureaucracy, GPs, Privatisation, quality of care, safety

Health Secretary backs private firm profiting from patients who can’t get an NHS dentist.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Hancock has thrown his weight behind MyDentist – an enterprise that targets areas with a shortage of NHS … Read more

Categories NHS videos, Quality of care Tags cuts to services, dentistry, Matt Hancock, Privatisation

Private online provider partners with GP networks covering 88,000 patients

Private online GP provider Push Doctor has partnered with two primary care networks in Birmingham, giving 88,000 NHS patients access … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags community health, digital health, GPs, long-term plan, Privatisation

Health secretary asked to halt £1bn community services tender

An MP has asked health secretary Matt Hancock to halt the “potentially disastrous” procurement of community services worth more than … Read more

Categories STPs Tags commissioning, community health, Privatisation, STP 39

Government asked to rip up Lansley competition rules

The NHS is asking the government to rip up key parts of the Lansley Act on competition, the long-term plan … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags community health, hospitals, Lansley Act, long-term plan, marketisation, NHS reform, Privatisation

NHS chiefs tell Theresa May it is time to curb privatisation

NHS leaders want Theresa May to scrap Conservative legislation that forces the tendering of contracts for care, in a move … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags cuts to services, NHS England, Privatisation, Recent news, Theresa May

Ten NHS trusts ‘wasted £235m to hire private ambulances’

Full story in The Guardian, 21 October 2018 England’s NHS trusts have spent almost a quarter of a billion pounds on private … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags ambulance service, Privatisation

Body parts scandal: firm stripped of NHS contracts

Full story in The Guardian, 9 October 2018 Healthcare Environment Services (HES) has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds … Read more

Categories NATIONAL Tags hospitals, Privatisation, safety
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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