In his resignation letter to prime minister Boris Johnson last week, former health secretary Matt Hancock said he was “so…
NHS hospitals are under the cosh as they face a rising tide of emergency attendances with a reduced number of…
Another major round of efforts to divert patients away from A&E departments is under way as winter approaches. Walk-in patients…
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…
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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…