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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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STP 33

CCG needs to show more ‘gravitas’ and ‘get a grip’ says NHS England

Full Story at HSJ 19 March 2018 A struggling clinical commissioning group was told it needed to show “stronger evidence … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CCGs, NHS reform, NHS staff, STP 33

Regulator criticises ‘passive and unwieldy’ STP

Full story in The HSJ, 8 February 2018 A sustainability and transformation partnership had “not begun to function effectively” when … Read more

Categories STPs Tags CQC, NHS reform, STP 33

East Surrey Hospital cancels nearly 30 operations in four days

Full story at Get Surrey  17 January 2018 East Surrey Hospital had to cancel 28 operations in four days due … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, hospitals, STP 33, surgery, treatment delays, winter crisis

Around 3,000 people left waiting in ambulances outside A&Es in Surrey for over 30 minutes at the end of 2017

Full story at Get Surrey 15 January 2018 Nearly 3,000 patients were left waiting in an ambulance outside A&Es in … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 33, waiting times, winter crisis

Targets Being Missed as Hospital Patient Transfer Times More Than Doubled Over Christmas

Full Story at B Journal 10 January 2018 Targets are being missed as patients in Brighton & Hove are waiting … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, STP 33, waiting times, winter crisis

NHS close to meltdown, according to Brighton A&E consultant

Full article at Brighton and Hove News 25 December 2017 The NHS is close to meltdown, according to Brighton accident … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, NHS England, STP 33, winter crisis

A ‘State-of-the-art’ Hailsham health centre plan has been revealed

Full story at EastBourne Herald 6 December 2017 Local people are invited to view plans for a new state-of-the-art primary … Read more

Categories Quality of care, STPs Tags CCGs, community health, STP 33

‘Megalithic’ changes to health and adult social care agreed

Three years ago the county council formed the East Sussex Better Together programme with clinical commissioning groups, the trust running … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags ACO, community health, integrated care, NHS reform, social care, STP 33, STPs

Revealed: NHS cuts could target heart attack patients in Surrey and Sussex

Patients at risk of a heart attack could be denied vital tests and potentially life-saving operations under NHS plans to make £55m … Read more

Categories Rationing, STPs Tags cuts to services, rationing, STP 33, STP 35, STPs, underfunding

Brighton care service requires improvement, says CQC

A Brighton care service has made changes for the better after a few tough years but still “requires improvement”, according … Read more

Categories Quality of care, STPs Tags cuts to services, deficit, Department of Health, NHS reform, safety, STP 33, treatment delays
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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