Crisis in the NHS caused by Tory underfunding not Covid, say BMA
The BMA has drawn up a major dossier that refutes Sajid Javid’s claims that the pressures on the NHS were … Read more
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NHS told to cut £500m in spending
NHS England has been asked by the government to reduce core NHS funding by hundreds of millions of pounds in … Read more
OpenDemocracy reveal that most of Javid’s ‘69 new NHS centres’ may not actually exist
Sajid Javid told Parliament on 8 February that scores of “new community diagnostic centres” had “already opened across England in convenient places … Read more
Javid’s ‘new’ ideas short on funding
Javid’s lengthy (8,600 word, 16-page) speech on “reforms” on March 8 was laden with waffle, two feeble jokes, and centred on half … Read more
NHS now paying for prolonged squeeze on its funding
New figures from the King’s Fund, calculating the progress of funding for the NHS and social care since the banking crash … Read more
NHS waiting list plan ‘will fail’ unless pressure on A&E is lifted
The Society for Acute Medicine has warned that the government’s plan to tackle NHS waiting lists “will fail” unless pressure … Read more
Will Javid’s GP reorganisation meet the challenge of improving access to care?
The primary care sector is set for a major upheaval under new plans to improve patient access, according to ministerial … Read more
Propaganda stepped up as new hospital schemes are stalled
Hospital trust chief executives are being told to exaggerate the scale of any new developments by describing any new unit … Read more
New Health & Care Bill will gag local voices
A major loss of local accountability and control, coupled with a massive expansion of centralised powers, and the danger of … Read more
Sajid Javid appointment akin to ‘putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop’
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has said the appointment of Sajid Javid as the new health secretary is akin to … Read more