The crisis currently facing the NHS and social care is well known and becoming increasingly severe – the government cannot … Read more
Patients are being asked to volunteer to sleep in corridors in order to free up spaces on overrun NHS wards, … Read more
Better financial planning and reforms needed to avoid ‘disastrous combination of failing public services and breached spending controls’ Hospitals could … Read more
The latest NHS bed occupancy figures are the highest ever recorded for a third quarter since quarterly data collections began … Read more
Imagine a large barrel that we pull apart, reconstruct and expand (at considerable expense) every year. Imagine we need to … Read more
Hospitals will have to be closed and beds cut as part of a series of money-saving measures across the NHS … Read more
Smokers in England wanting to quit face a postcode lottery as cash-strapped councils and GPs restrict access to services that … Read more
An NHS chief has admitted for the first time hospital trusts will miss their financial target this year as forecasts … Read more
Eleven maternity and neonatal units across England are reportedly facing either being axed or merged under plans to transform obstetrics … Read more
As part of the work for our forthcoming report on NHS financial pressures, we examined how the media have reported … Read more