At the end of August health secretary Hancock loudly proclaimed a rise in the number of GPs, but this is…
Call for action to avert “corridor care” Royal College of Psychiatrists maps a way towards less overcrowded mental health wards…
It has been hard to keep up with and evaluate the succession of announcements of new money for refurbishment and…
In the past five years numbers of nurses in England have risen by 4.6%: but the numbers of hospital admissions…
The NHS is caught up in more top down change. In over 20 areas the local bodies responsible for paying…
The level of disruption that could be caused for the NHS by a no-deal Brexit was thrown into the spotlight…
The NHS’s infrastructure is crumbling and disintegrating – 50% of GP surgeries are not fit for their current purpose, according…
As the summer hots up, hospital trusts are busy making plans for how they are going to cope with the…
The delayed Interim People Plan, authored by NHS Improvement, opens with some straightforward admissions. “The culture of the NHS is…
How much does the NHS spend on drugs per year? According to the most recent data from NHS Digital,…