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Social care cuts take English service to tipping point, regulator warns

By NHS Support Federation | Oct 13, 2016

A&E units are struggling to cope because social care services that help elderly people have been cut so much that … Read more

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Home truths: are older people paying the price for social care cuts?

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 15, 2016

Patrick Hall – Fellow Social Care Policy The problems of the NHS do not exist in a vacuum. Older people … Read more

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Elderly Britons bearing brunt of cuts to social care, report warns

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 15, 2016

Elderly people are bearing the brunt of cuts to social care, according to a new report that also warns of … Read more

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GPs decry Capita’s privatised backup services as ‘shambles’

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 14, 2016

Family doctors have criticised the “shambles” that has ensued after the firm Capita was handed a £700m contract to provide … Read more

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NHS facing ‘pockets of meltdown’ this winter

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 12, 2016

The NHS will experience “pockets of meltdown” this winter as the service comes under increasing pressure, a leading doctor has … Read more

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NHS chiefs warn that hospitals in England are on the brink of collapse

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 11, 2016

The body that represents hospitals across England has issued a startling warning that the NHS is close to breaking point … Read more

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The gap between funds and delivery is a chasm in the NHS: something has to give

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 10, 2016

Waiting lists are at their highest in eight years.  In the absence of extra money, we need an open and … Read more

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‘Winter of discontent’ warnings over latest NHS performance figures

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 8, 2016

Key measures of NHS services in England have continued to decrease, prompting warnings that providers are increasingly struggling to deliver … Read more

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STPs: Radical local modernisation plans or the end of the NHS as we know it?

By NHS Support Federation | Sep 8, 2016

To some, they are bold, painful, inevitably controversial but nevertheless necessary local blueprints designed to save the NHS in England, … Read more

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