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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?
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    • 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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Survey reveals working for the NHS is making staff sick with stress

Full Story in Devon Live 14 April 2018 NHS staff in Devon don’t look forward to going to work and … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staff, recruitment, safety, staff shortage, understaffing

New medical schools in under-doctored areas

Full Story on BBC News 20 March 2018 Five new medical schools are to be created in England as part … Read more

Categories NHS videos Tags doctors, hospitals, NHS staff, nurses, recruitment

80% of NHS workers warn patient safety hit by lack of staff

Full Story in The Guardian 18 March 2018 A huge majority of NHS workers say they are worried about staffing … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags cuts to services, NHS staff, recruitment, safety, staff shortage, understaffing

Unless quick action is taken on staffing NHS risks more cancelled procedures in 2018

Full Story in National Health Executive 12 March 2018 The NHS is being “pushed to its limit,” according the Royal … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, treatment delays, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times

Trusts set up private companies to save vital staff.

Full Story at Open Democracy, 26 February 2018 Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across England are looking at (or already … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags hospitals, NHS reform, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, STP 9

More EU27 staff quit as the Brexit impacts continue.

Full story at The Guardian 13 January 2018 Increasing numbers of European Union-trained ambulance staff are quitting the NHS, raising … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags ambulance service, Brexit, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing, waiting times

GPs losing sleep over patient safety fears, says head of profession

Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says colleagues are left anxious by overwork and exhaustion … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care Tags community health, GPs, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage

Falling number of NHS child psychiatrists provokes ‘deep concern’

The number of NHS psychiatrists helping troubled children and young people in England is falling despite the growing demand for care, new … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags children's health, cuts to services, mental health, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, waiting times

‘Enough is enough’: nurses protest against pay cap outside Westminster

Nurses have expressed their anger over the public sector pay cap in a protest outside parliament, warning the government they … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staff, nurses, pay cap, recruitment, staff shortage, underfunding

Is it any wonder the NHS is struggling to recruit homegrown GPs when their job has been reduced to little more than delivering bad news?

As the NHS launches a £100m drive to recruit foreign GPs, it’s hard to know what to think. Perhaps we should feel … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags GPs, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing, waiting times
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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