Press Summary: 27 May 2016

The following stories were selected from those sent as daily alerts under the search term ‘NHS’, and ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ from the Google alerts service. Please send any comments to Alan: [email protected]

19 May

Hunt says junior doctor deal with pave way for 7 day NHS

Pulse: http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/hot-topics/junior-doctor-contract/historic-junior-doctor-agreement-will-pave-way-for-seven-day-nhs-says-hunt/20031885.fullarticle

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20 May

Deficit caused by chronic under-staffing

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/20/nhs-deficit-ballooned-understaffing-agency-health

 

NHS chiefs forced to ‘cook books’ to hide true deficit figures

Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-chiefs-forced-cook-up-8012591

 

Gove: Immigrant influx will make NHS sustainable

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/20/eu-immigrant-influx-michael-gove-nhs-unsustainable

 

Patients could suffer because of deficit

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36341235

 

GPS warn NHS England over sudden loss of GP services

BMJ: http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2907

 

Two-thirds of areas report decline in NHS quality

Pulse: http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/two-thirds-of-areas-report-decline-in-nhs-quality/20031876.fullarticle

 

23 May

£10 billion NHS deficit by 2020

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/23/nhs-10bn-a-year-black-hole-2020-cipfa-report

 

24 May

CQC scaling back inspections after budget cuts

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/24/nhs-regulator-cqc-hosital-care-home-inspections

 

25 May

Nursing bursary cut ‘may worsen NHS staff shortages’

Masterful under-statement by the BBC…: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36336830

 

26 May

Delay in discharging older patients costs NHS £280 million a year

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/26/delays-in-discharging-older-patients-from-hospital-cost-nhs-820m-a-year

 

Similar story in the Yorkshire Post (local)

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/health/800m-nhs-hospital-bill-for-old-folk-with-nowhere-else-to-go-1-7931322

 

Yet the Express pitches exactly the same story as ‘is the NHS wasting YOUR money’

If ever there was an example of the privatization agenda driving a news story, this is it:

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/673952/delays-discharging-nhs-patients-costing-800m-a-year

 

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