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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

STP 20

Legal challenge lodged over changes to Corby’s urgent care centre

Full story in the Northamptonshire Telegraph, 26 April 2018 The site in Cottingham Road has been under intense scrutiny since … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, STP 20, urgent care

Parents worried as specialist Northampton respite care centre faces uncertain future

Full story at Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 9 April 2018 The parents who use a specialist Northampton respite care centre … Read more

Categories National STP Tags children's health, cuts to services, deficit, STP 20, underfunding

Future of Corby’s Urgent Care Centre row continues

Full Story in North Hamptonshire Telegraph 1 March 2018 The move was approved by Corby CCG’s governing body at the … Read more

Categories STPs Tags cuts to services, STP 20, urgent care

War of words over planned changes at Corby Urgent Care Centre

Full story in The Northamptonshire Telegraph, 30 January 2018 Members of an action group set up to save Corby’s Urgent … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, cuts to services, STP 20, urgent care

Where mental health spending misses national target

Four sustainability and transformation plan regions have failed to raise mental health spending as mandated by national leaders, HSJ can reveal. Data … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care Tags cuts to services, mental health, STP 20, STP 24, STP 41, STP 44, STPs

Northamptonshire MP to raise NHS funding with Northants health bosses

A Northamptonshire MP says he will be talking to health bosses about the concerns raised by our series of NHS … Read more

Categories STPs Tags cuts to services, NHS reform, STP 20, STPs

Are you willing to pay extra tax to prop up the NHS in Northamptonshire?

Health bosses in Northamptonshire need to save £230 million over the next five years to balance the books… but would … Read more

Categories STPs Tags cuts to services, NHS reform, STP 20, STPs

Hospital, CCG and GP consolidation mooted by Northamptonshire STP

Service redesign under the Northamptonshire sustainability and transformation plan may go so far that it will “make little sense to … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, CCGs, cuts to services, GPs, hospitals, NHS reform, STP 20, STPs

Acute services could merge under Midlands STP

Acute services at Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital Trust are to be merged as part of … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CCGs, cuts to services, NHS reform, STP 20, STPs

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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