NHS cash crisis in Kent halts non-urgent surgery until April
An NHS body has run so short of money that it has banned patients in its area from having non-urgent … Read more
treatment delays
Hospitals cancelled record number of urgent operations last year
Hospitals cancelled a record number of urgent operations last year as bed shortages left them struggling to cope with the … Read more
Pain-level rationing of hip and knee surgery due to cash crisis, admits NHS
A senior NHS official has admitted that funding shortages mean hip and knee replacements will have to be rationed according … Read more
Paramedics spend 500,000 hours outside busy A&Es, say auditors
Paramedics last year spent 500,000 hours outside hospitals with a patient in the back of their ambulance because A&E staff … Read more
Ambulance services ‘not coping’ as demand rises
Ambulance crews are finding it “increasingly difficult to cope”, an audit of the service in England says. The warning by … Read more
Cutting hospital beds would be “lunacy,” warns senior emergency doctor
Plans to reduce bed capacity in some NHS hospitals are “lunacy” against the current backdrop of rising demand and high … Read more
NHS at breaking point says ‘appalled’ Leeds councillor
A senior councillor in Yorkshire’s largest city has said patients and NHS staff are being let down because of a … Read more
On mental health, the Tories need to put their money where their mouths are – Alastair Campbell
hat is it about the mental health debate that makes me go all Malcolm Tucker, effing and blinding at the … Read more
Hospitals across UK cancelling ‘urgent’ cancer operations as NHS winter crisis worsens
Hospitals across the UK are cancelling “urgent” cancer operations as the NHS winter crisis worsens. Some patients have reportedly been … Read more
Crisis, what NHS crisis? Theresa May must stop this denial – Jan Filochowski
A few months into my first job in the NHS, some 38 years ago, I watched Prime Minister Jim Callaghan … Read more