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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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