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STPs ‘far from perfect’ but NHS has no plan B, warns think tank

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 14, 2016

Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have failed to involve frontline clinicians or patients and have been mired in confusion, a … Read more

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Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 14, 2016

NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved … Read more

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NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 14, 2016

NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found. Full details … Read more

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Somerset STP plots ‘accountable care system’

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 11, 2016

Somerset’s sustainability and transformation plan sets the goal of implementing an “accountable care system” by April 2019. The plan, which … Read more

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Revealed: The CCGs cutting mental health budgets

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 7, 2016

More than a fifth of commissioners are failing to raise mental health spending by as much as directed by NHS … Read more

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Can Simon Stevens’ Sustainability and Transformation Plans save the NHS? – The Centre for Health and Public Interest

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 6, 2016

Predictions that the NHS is facing disaster have been issued so often that people no longer pay much attention. This … Read more

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King George Hospital A&E closure nears as hospitals reveal possible date for overnight closure

By NHS Support Federation | Nov 3, 2016

Documents obtained by the Recorder suggest that Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT) now has a date for … Read more

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Another ‘secretive’ mega shake-up of the NHS is being carried out by stealth, warns Unite

By NHS Support Federation | Oct 26, 2016

Another mega NHS shake-up, with a serious threat to patient services, is underway by stealth, Unite, the country’s largest union, … Read more

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Lack of mental health crisis beds a ‘national scandal’ – HSJ Exclusive

By NHS Support Federation | Oct 13, 2016

Mental health chiefs have branded a shortage of acute beds for crisis care a “national scandal”, and said extra cash … Read more

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