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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?
  • 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
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STP 17

The number of Birmingham kids accessing mental health services soars – here’s where to get help

The number of children and teenagers accessing mental health services in Birmingham is on the rise. The latest figures from … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, mental health, STP 16, STP 17, underfunding

Revealed: Vital STP projects face doubt after £1bn fund snub

An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective … Read more

Categories National STP Tags Department of Health, LEAD STORY, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform, STP 14, STP 17, STP 18, STP 21, STP 22, STP 27, STP 43, STP 6, STP 9, underfunding

CQC: ‘No coherent strategy’ for city’s health services

Full story in The HSJ, 11 May 2018 Health and care leaders in Birmingham lack a coherent strategy for the … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CCGs, community health, CQC, Elderly care, NHS reform, STP 17

One of biggest NHS mergers includes Birmingham hospital trusts

Full Story in Nursing Times 28 March 2018 A merger between University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and its neighbour … Read more

Categories STPs Tags NHS reform, STP 17

Plans to merge three trusts is dropped.

Full story at HSJ 2 March 2018 A merger of three trusts has been dropped because it would have created … Read more

Categories STPs Tags NHS reform, STP 16, STP 17, STPs, underfunding

Exclusive: Three-trust merger plan dropped

A merger of three trusts has been dropped because it would have created a trust spanning two sustainability and transformation … Read more

Categories STPs Tags NHS reform, STP 16, STP 17, STPs

The shocking figures that reveal the crisis in Birmingham’s health service

Full story in Birmingham Mail, 1 March 2018 Shocking new figures reveal that waiting lists are soaring across Birmingham’s NHS, … Read more

Categories STPs, NHS spending Tags A&E, cuts to services, deficit, hospitals, STP 17, winter crisis

Birmingham trusts plan new partnership to fix CAMHS

Article from HSJ, 28 February 2018 Child mental health services in Birmingham and Solihull are set to be redesigned for … Read more

Categories Infrastructure problems Tags children's health, mental health, NHS reform, STP 17, STPs, treatment delays

Inspectors warn Birmingham’s mental health services for children and young people need ‘urgent improvements’

Full story in the Birmingham Mail, 27 February 2018 Children, teenagers and young adults with mental health problems in Birmingham … Read more

Categories Quality of care, STPs Tags community health, CQC, hospitals, mental health, STP 17

Children potentially exposed to severe harm after waiting list blowout

Four children were potentially exposed to severe harm after delays in their treatment, as dozens have been on a surgery … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, STP 17, STPs, waiting lists, 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