With tens of thousands of NHS beds still closed (NHS Improvement has refused to reveal an updated figure since the…
Four years of “special measures” have apparently achieved little or nothing in the crisis-ridden Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, whose two…
Lowdown stories and the editor’s pick from the rest of the media (8 July 2020) Expensive failures could cost lives…
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The chronic and continued shortage of front line acute beds in NHS hospitals are times of highest demand are no…
Performance in England’s A&E departments has fallen to new lows after a decade of under-funding and real terms cuts in…
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency on January 30 after the number of confirmed cases spiked. More than…
The Johnson government has swept to power on the back of extensive promises to invest in and improve the NHS…
In October only two out of 119 hospitals with a major A&E department met the target of ensuring patients wait…
As performance levels of acute trusts plummets and the winter draws near, with no additional winter funding made available to…