…limit on capacity to treat the normal caseload. The latest bed availability and occupancy figures (up to end of June 2021) show a loss of 4,567 front line general and…
…rising numbers of patients effectively forced to use their services. And even those patients who can’t afford private surgery – in the latest Healthwatch England poll, that’s almost 50 per…
…to the private sector NHS England’s latest TV ad promoting talking therapies, featuring music celebrities and a spoken rendition of a classic Beatles song, has attracted widespread press coverage, but…
…____________________________________________________ NHS England plans – for private patients It was bad enough that NHS England’s latest bi-monthly Board meeting showed no real reaction to the news of a further £1.5…
…made time and time again, but successive governments have always kicked any idea of reform into the long-grass. The latest plans unveiled in December 2021 in the House of Commons,…
…could help align incentives and lead to better service integration or investment decisions – suggesting, for example, that combining the commissioning of both transplantation and dialysis would align the incentives…
…flow of staff leaving the NHS After a series of real terms pay cuts over the last decade union leaders are in no mood to accept this latest offer of…
…who again echoes the vague refrain that ‘fundamental and sweeping changes’ are required: “We have to completely change the system from a late-stage sickness system to one that is about…
…for support, spending on mental health services as share of commissioning budgets fell back last year to 2018/19 levels. What has been the response to this latest evidence of crisis?…