Huge bills for controversial health plans are slammed
Health bosses have spent at least £17.6m on management consultants to draw up plans that could lead to the closure … Read more
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CCGs to join up for STP-wide commissioning
All the clinical commissioning groups across a sustainability and transformation plan footprint have signed up to form a commissioning committee … Read more
Have your say on future of the district’s stroke service
HEALTH watchdogs are urging people district wide to have their say over possible cuts to emergency stroke services. Under massive … Read more
Another blow to STPs as current plans require £10bn of fresh funding
The majority of the 44 STP footprints are expecting to require new capital funding in order to finance the projects … Read more
Revealed: the NHS plan to close, consolidate or ‘reshape’ 11 maternity units
Eleven maternity and neonatal units across England face closure, consolidation or ‘reshaping’ under plans to transform obstetrics care in the … Read more
These ‘impossible NHS plans will cost £1.2bn in Yorkshire alone’
Yorkshire’s NHS needs £1.2bn of investment to deliver a massive reorganisation of health services in the next five years, it … Read more
One in six A&E departments at risk of closure or downgrade
One in six A&E departments face being closed or downgraded in the next four years, according to an analysis of … Read more
Revealed: 24 A&Es could be closed or downgraded
HSJ has identified which of the NHS’s circa 175 Type 1 adult emergency departments are at risk of downgrade or … Read more
Rising demand leads to review of stroke units
People who suffer a stroke could have further to travel to hospital if health bosses decide to reduce the number … Read more
Management consultants scoop up on the secretive shake-up of the health service in England
The cash-strapped NHS could be spending up to £15 million on management consultants for advice on the secretive shake-up of … Read more