Croydon’s overstretched University Hospital has been bumping along at the bottom of the performance tables for some time. In January…
The massive £695m PFI-funded Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is struggling with a rising tide of emergency attendances (up almost…
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has responded angrily to recent media speculation that NHS England is about to…
Urgent care covers the NHS 111 services, walk-in centres and out-of-hours (OOH) GP services. There have been a number of…
One of the most serious affects of outsourcing in the NHS that has been observed is a decline in quality…
Four clinical commissioning groups have appointed new organisations to run GP out of hours services after the collapse of multiple…
Thousands of patients could be left without GP out of hours services after a cash-strapped private provider said it would…
A trust reduced its “core bed base” by nearly 40 in the run up to last winter, when its emergency…
Full story in The Guardian, 16 September 2018 A struggling ambulance trust hopes to improve response times by sending ambulances…
A company operating one of the first integrated NHS 111 and GP out of hours services is to hand back…