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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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LEAD STORY

Three STPs to share leader and form integrated care system

Full story in The HSJ, 10 April 2018 Three northern sustainability and transformation partnerships have appointed a single leader and … Read more

Categories STPs Tags ACS, integrated care system, LEAD STORY, NHS reform, STP 1, STP2, STP3

Deep concerns about the ACO contract remain unaddressed

Full article in The HSJ, 3 April 2018 Government policy on Accountable Care Organisations remains confused and confusing. The Health … Read more

Categories NATIONAL, Integrated care, STPs Tags ACO, commissioning, integrated care, LEAD STORY, NHS England, NHS reform, STPs

Aspiring ACO will not ‘fully integrate’ vast majority of its GPs

Full story in The HSJ, 22 March 2018 The “vast majority” of GPs are expected to choose “partial” rather than “full” integration … Read more

Categories ACO, Integrated care, STPs Tags ACO, CCGs, GPs, ICS, integrated care system, LEAD STORY, NHS reform, STP 16

Trust cancels operations until Easter to ‘reset’ health economy

Full story in the HSJ, 22 March 2018 Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has cancelled all elective operations until 29 March … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, community health, hospitals, LEAD STORY, STP 14, waiting times, winter crisis

Trust chief: STP must be reviewed after ‘extraordinary’ winter

Full story in The HSJ, 12 March 2018 The new chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has said the … Read more

Categories STPs Tags A&E, community health, hospitals, LEAD STORY, NHS reform, STP 14, winter crisis

GPs offered cash to refer fewer people to hospital

GPs are being offered cash payments not to refer patients to hospital, in a move which leading family doctors have … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags deficit, GPs, LEAD STORY, rationing, safety

Ambulances stuck at A&E ‘unable to respond quickly to 999 calls’

Full story in The Guardian, 18 February 2018 Patients who have a stroke or heart attack are at risk of … Read more

Categories National STP Tags A&E, ambulance service, hospitals, LEAD STORY, safety, treatment delays, winter crisis

GPC chair warns: Don’t give up practice contracts for ACOs

GPC chair warns: Don’t give up practice contracts for ACOs Full story at GP Online 17th January 2018 The BMA’s … Read more

Categories National STP, ACO, STPs Tags Accountable Care Organisation, ACO, BMA, LEAD STORY, National STP, 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