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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
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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Southend Council refers £118m plan for Southend, Basildon and Broomfield hospitals to health secretary

Full story in the Braintree and Witham Times, 10 October 2018 Plans to reshape healthcare in south Essex are in … Read more

Categories STPs, Quality of care Tags Department of Health, hospitals, NHS reform, stp 26

Major reconfiguration could be referred to Hancock

Full story in the HSJ, 18 September 2018 A major reconfiguration of services faces referral to the health and social … Read more

Categories National STP Tags community health, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS reform, stp 26

Practice taken over by Virgin goes from outstanding to inadequate in 18 months

Full story in GP Online, 16 May 2018 The Sutherland Lodge practice in Chelmsford, Essex, was taken over by the … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Care quality commission, cuts to spending, NHS Funding, Privatisation, quality of care, stp 26, virgin care

You need a PhD to understand health consultation says leading health specialist

ONE of the UK’s leading stroke consultants has described a consultation into Essex health changes as so complicated PhD graduates … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags community health, Consultation, cuts to services, stp 26, stroke

Stroke reconfiguration plans cause concerns.

Full Story at HSJ 29 March 2018 Senior clinicians and local campaigners have raised safety concerns over plans for a … Read more

Categories Quality of care, STPs Tags cuts to services, deficit, hospitals, stp 26, underfunding

‘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

Categories STPs Tags bed cuts, hospitals, safety, stp 26, STPs

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

Categories Social Care, Quality of care, STPs Tags community health, safety, stp 26, STPs

Suffolk and Essex among lowest funded as government defends public health grants

Full Story in East Anglian Daily Times 29 January 2018 The Government has defended its decision to reduce public health … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags cuts to services, STP 23, stp 26, underfunding

Broomfield Hospital visited by Jeremy Hunt amid protests over hospital merger plans

Full story in Essex Live 19 January 2018 Health secretary Jeremy Hunt was heckled when he visited Broomfield Hospital amid … Read more

Categories NATIONAL, National STP, Quality of care, STPs Tags cuts to services, hospitals, Jeremy Hunt, National STP, National STPs, NHS reform, stp 26

‘Angry’ patients forced to wait for treatment due to backlog at Broomfield Hospital

Full story in Essex Live 2 January 2018 Around 12 to 13 ambulances from the East of England Ambulance Service … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, stp 26, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis
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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