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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

workforce plan

MPs conclude that NHS workforce plan cannot deliver

The cross-party Public Accounts Committee has heavily criticised the government’s 15 year workforce plan in a new report, in particular the … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Public Accounts Committee, staff shortages, staffing, staffing crisis, workforce plan

NHS workforce plan in danger from applicant shortfall

A Health Foundation analysis shows that the NHS workforce plan risks being derailed by difficulties in finding enough applicants and … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags long-term workforce plan, staffing, The Health Foundation, workforce plan

Action on hospital bed shortage: too little, too late?

Last winter In distressing scenes across the country patients waited in vain for ambulances, in hospital corridors and queued in … Read more

Categories Staffing, Hospitals Tags beds, excess deaths, hospital beds, hospitals, NHS staffing, staffing, workforce plan

Emergency Care Plan raises more questions

A new plan to rescue struggling NHS emergency services, pledging 800 ambulances, 5000 more hospital beds and bolstering community care has been … Read more

Categories Hospitals, Staffing, Treatment delays Tags emergency care plan, hospital beds, Rishi Sunak, workforce plan, workforce strategy

Is the NHS finally going to get its workforce plan?

A year ago Jeremy Hunt was sitting on the back benches, and as chair of the health select committee was … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Jeremy Hunt, NHS staff, staff shortages, staffing, understaffing, workforce plan

A workforce already stretched over five days, can’t stretch to seven

With the waiting list of patients waiting for planned NHS care at over 7 million, up from 4.4 million before … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags hospitals, staff shortages, staffing, understaffing, weekend working, workforce plan

Wake-up call on NHS staffing crisis, but what is the plan?

This week the health and select committee within Parliament confirmed what everyone working in the NHS already knows – it has a … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS staff, Privatisation, social care, understaffing, Workforce crisis, workforce plan

Urgent calls to fix “incoherent” health and social care staffing

A build-up in staff shortages in both the NHS and social care due to mistakes made over the previous decade … Read more

Categories Staffing, Safety Tags NHS staffing, NHS workforce, patient safety, People Plan, safety, Workforce crisis, workforce plan

NHS staff quitting due to burnout and bullying, report says

NHS staff are quitting because they are stressed and burned out from heavy workloads, having too little time with patients … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags doctors, hospitals, NHS staff, nurses, understaffing, workforce plan

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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