Two-thirds of NHS say patient safety getting worse
Full Story in The Guardian 12 March 2018 Nearly two-thirds of doctors believe patient safety has deteriorated over the past … Read more
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Council chief says NHS faces year-round crisis over lack of social care
Full Story in The Guardian 12 March 2018 The NHS could be plunged into a year-round crisis because of a … Read more
Top homeless mental health team funding slashed by NHS
Full Story in The Guardian 10 March 2018 NHS bosses are under fire for cutting back a team of doctors … Read more
More than half of NHS staff worked unpaid hours in last year
Full story in the NHE, 6 March 2018 The results of NHS England’s NHS Staff Survey 2017 are “challenging” and show that … Read more
£48 million overspend in Cambridgeshire NHS budget revealed
Winter pressures on NHS services in Cambridgeshire have sent local spending spiralling nearly £50 million over budget. Local health bosses … Read more
Plans to merge three trusts is dropped.
Full story at HSJ 2 March 2018 A merger of three trusts has been dropped because it would have created … Read more
‘Vulnerable patients’ face ongoing caps to care funding
Commissioners have been allowed to continue applying cost caps to the more than £3bn of NHS Continuing Healthcare claims as … Read more
NHS England treats too many patients as an emergency, watchdog warns
Hospitals in England are admitting so many patients as medical emergencies that the NHS’s finances and ability to function are … Read more
Row over weekend GP walk-in appointments
Proposals made by a senior consultant at the Royal Cornwall Hospital to get GP surgeries to offer “walk-in” appointments at … Read more
Higher consulting spending makes NHS trusts less efficient, study suggests
National Health Service (NHS) trusts which hire management consultants in order to reduce expenditure do not end up saving money, … Read more