GP workforce declines by over 400 in just three months
The number of full-time equivalent GPs dropped by 1.3% in the last three months of 2016, new workforce figures reveal. … Read more
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Delivering sustainability and transformation plans
From ambitious proposals to credible plans This report examines the content of the 44 sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) that … Read more
One in ten areas left without GP out-of-hours cover
Out-of-hours GP services are on a knife edge, with providers covering some four million patients admitting they have had overnight … Read more
Nursing degree applications slump after NHS bursaries abolished
Applications by students in England to nursing and midwifery courses at British universities have fallen by 23% after the government … Read more
Chief nurse says she will ‘step up efforts’ to increase staffing
NHS Improvement was aware of a significant decline in nurse staffing performance across English hospitals and its nursing director has … Read more
Concerns for frontline services funding under new contract
Concerns have been raised over the future funding of Liverpool’s troubled community services, as £4.6m is set to be withdrawn … Read more
GP workforce shrunk over the past year in major blow to 5,000 target
The number of GPs working in the NHS in England has dropped in the past year, striking a blow to … Read more
Is the NHS in crisis?
The chairman of the Leeds Health Scrutiny Board certainly thinks so. In a letter to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Coun … Read more
NHS Hospital wards left with ‘dangerously low levels of nurses’
Hospitals are running wards with a dangerously low number of nurses and are using healthcare workers as “stand-ins”, according to a … Read more
Jeremy Hunt has not grasped the scale of workforce issues
Hunt needs to understand that nurses join the profession to nurse, not because they failed to become doctors Health secretary … Read more