Care Quality Commission says Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust ‘requires improvement’
Full Story in Kent Online 9 March 2018 The trust in charge of hospitals in Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells has … Read more
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Patients’ panel says Leicester operations postponements ‘alarming’
Full Story in Leicester Mercury 8 March 2018 A patients’ panel has expressed alarm at the scale of cancelled hospital … Read more
NHS shortfalls affected dozens of mental health patients who later died
Full story in The Guardian, 6 March 2018 A lack of beds, staff and specialist services affected the care of … Read more
‘No more excuses over management of Braintree Hospital’
Trustees of Braintree Community Hospital will not accept any more excuses from the management over its running of the facility. … Read more
Durham and Darlington NHS Trust surgery problems ‘concerning’
A “deterioration in surgery” at a North East health trust is a “concern”, a watchdog has said. An inspection of … Read more
Capacity to handle 999 calls at risk, warns London ambulance service
Britain’s busiest NHS ambulance service may no longer be able to answer all 999 calls quickly enough because its control … Read more
Controversial ‘CareBnB’ firm returns to launch new trial
The company developing a controversial “Airbnb for social care” model allowing homeowners to rent spare rooms to recuperating hospital patients … Read more
Firm with safeguarding issues launches new ‘CareBnB’ trial.
Full Story at HSJ 1 March 2018 The company developing a controversial “Airbnb for social care” model allowing homeowners to … Read more
Fifth of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary, study finds
GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has … Read more
GPs offered cash to refer fewer people to hospital
GPs are being offered cash payments not to refer patients to hospital, in a move which leading family doctors have … Read more