Former Culture secretary Matt Hancock is fundamentally in the wrong job. This Health Secretary pays precious little mind to the real and fundamental issues of understaffing and underfunding, the positive resolution of which would solve […]
Huge victory for local campaigners as plans to close Charing Cross Hospital and further downgrade Ealing Hospital have been stopped. On Monday 26 March, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that the proposed plan, ‘Shaping a […]
Figures from NHS England released today back up the concerns of staff on the frontline that conditions are deteriorating in emergency departments and trusts across the UK. The report shows that due to underfunding and […]
Is the winter crisis a new phenomenon? A winter crisis in the NHS may not be an entirely new phenomenon, but the severity of it is. 2012-13 saw the first reports of a winter crisis, […]
The Department of Health and Social Care will not ringfence £240m social care funding, nor guarantee mass surgical cancellations will not happen again this winter. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday […]
This week it was announced that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has approved £196.5 million of capital funding for reconfiguration plans of hospital and community services in Huddersfield. On the […]
Another winter crisis now seems inevitable and the 4-hour A&E target has already been scrapped by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt. The latest desperate (and yes madcap) idea from this government in place of proper […]
National KONP and NHS News Decision to strike Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba from the medical register overturned On Monday 13 August, after a battle that has lasted nearly three years, the court of appeal ruled that […]
Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group was forced to admit that 396 people per year would be at clinical risk due to longer journey times at our Save Poole A&E and Maternity + NHS beds Judicial Review […]
January 2017: Winter – crisis of Government policy At the start of 2017, nothing highlighted more clearly the level of neglect shown by this government towards the NHS, and the risks to safety they have […]
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