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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
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NHS staff shortages to blame for big rise in cancelled operations on children and young people, Labour warns

Operations on children and young people are being cancelled in huge numbers as NHS staff shortages bite, Labour reveals today. … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags children's health, cuts to services, staff shortage, surgery, treatment delays, understaffing

Sick patients dying ‘unnecessarily’ in NHS because of poor care

Some of the sickest patients that hospitals treat are dying unnecessarily because they receive poor care, blighted by shortages of … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags safety, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing

NHS faces staff crisis as student nurse applications plummet after Tories scrapped their grants

Nursing leaders today warn the NHS faces a staffing crisis after figures showed a sharp fall in applications for training … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags nurses, staff shortage, understaffing

Training survey exposes rota-gap dangers

The ‘serious’ threat posed by gaps in junior doctors’ work rotas has been laid bare by a national training survey. … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags junior doctors, NHS England, staff shortage, understaffing

More patients waiting longer than a week for GP appointments

Growing numbers of patient are waiting a week or more to see their GP or are unable to get an … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags community health, GPs, NHS staff, staff shortage, treatment delays, waiting times

Stress levels rising for mental health services

We have had repeated commitments from the very top of government to address the injustices faced by people with mental … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags mental health, NHS staff, Public Health, staff shortage, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing

More nurses and midwives leaving UK profession than joining, figures reveal

More midwives and nurses are leaving the profession in the UK than joining for the first time on record, with … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags maternity, NHS staff, nurses, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing

Evening and weekend emergency children’s operations to end at three hospitals over lack of NHS staff

Plans have been given the go-ahead to stop some emergency children’s operations at evenings and weekends at three regional hospitals … Read more

Categories STPs Tags children's health, cuts to services, staff shortage, STP 9, STPs, understaffing

Men’s psychiatric ward will not re-open after failure to recruit nurses

A PSYCHIATRIC ward in York is to remain closed after a recruitment campaign failed to attract enough staff to help … Read more

Categories STPs Tags NHS staff, nurses, staff shortage, STP 6, STPs, understaffing

BMA chief: NHS is ‘running on fumes’

Dr Mark Porter hit out at the government at the start of the union’s annual conference. He accused ministers of … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags BMA, cuts to services, staff shortage, underfunding, understaffing
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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