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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
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Hundreds of cancer procedures cancelled over winter by NHS trusts

Full Story in The Guardian 3 April 2018 Hundreds of cancer operations were cancelled by English NHS trusts during winter, … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags cuts to services, hospitals, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

British Medical Association says NHS is facing year-round crisis

Full Story in The Guardian 2 April 2018 The unprecedented pressure on the NHS this winter is likely to continue … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, treatment delays, underfunding, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Next year’s A&E targets will be impossible to meet says health trusts

Full Story in The Guardian 29 March 2018 NHS plans for the coming year will be impossible to deliver despite … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS staff, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times

Damning report finds ‘serious failings’ in NHS mental health services

Full story in The Guardian, 21 March 2018 Vulnerable mental health patients are suffering serious harm, and in some cases … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags hospitals, mental health, safety, underfunding, waiting times

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

Top doctor warns NHS winter crisis will carry on until Easter

Full Story in The Essential Daily Briefing 20 March 2018 The NHS “winter crisis” will drag on until at least … Read more

Categories Treatment delays Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS staff, treatment delays, underfunding, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times, winter crisis

Children treated across UK as there are no Derbyshire mental health beds for children

Full Story in Derbyshire Telegraph 18 March 2018 Children in Derbyshire who need an NHS mental health bed are being … Read more

Categories Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags children's health, cuts to services, hospitals, mental health, safety, STP 12, treatment delays, waiting lists, waiting times

Final figures show NHS winter crisis officially worst on record and patients still suffering

Full Story in The Independent 16 March 2018 “Heroic” NHS staff weathered the worst winter on record as official figures … Read more

Categories Treatment delays, Quality of care Tags A&E, ambulance service, cuts to services, hospitals, treatment delays, waiting times, winter crisis

Labour says NHS hospitals ran out of children’s intensive care beds more than a thousand times this winter

Full Story in The Independent 13 March 2018 The equivalent of ten children’s intensive care units a day are unable … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags children's health, cuts to services, hospitals, NHS England, safety, underfunding, waiting times

Unless quick action is taken on staffing NHS risks more cancelled procedures in 2018

Full Story in National Health Executive 12 March 2018 The NHS is being “pushed to its limit,” according the Royal … Read more

Categories Staffing, Quality of care, Treatment delays Tags NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, treatment delays, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times
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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