Issues

Protect and promote a comprehensive NHS

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Staffing

News: No peace for Streeting as battle over Physician Associates continues

News: Purge of top management indicates deep NHS cuts to come

Explainer: Staff shortages in the NHS - over a decade of failure

Explainer: De-skilling the workforce

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Patient Safety

News: Urgent investment in nursing needed to keep patients safe say RCN

News: Corridor care – the new hazard for A&E patients

Explainer: Patient safety suffers from years of underfunding

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Privatisation

News: NHS landlord bought by private equity

Explainer: Can the private sector help shrink waiting lists?

Analysis: Two huge community care services outsourced, but with what oversight?

NHS For Sale website - a comprehensive resource on the privatisation of the NHS

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Infrastructure

News: Streeting tries to bury bad news: new hospitals postponed to 2040s

News: NHS backlog repair bill soars towards £14 billion

Background: The NHS's crumbling infrastructure 

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Public Health

News: Action on social conditions needed to improve health inequalities 

Analysis: Why we need more public health services

Background: Public health underfunded and downgraded for over a decade

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Waiting Lists and Rationing

News: NHS told to slow down referrals amid rising waiting lists and job cuts

Background: How the waiting lists have built up

Background: Rationing in the NHS

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Mental Health Services

News: Children waiting and rejected for mental healthcare

News: Funding needed sooner not later: London mental health cuts

Background: The privatisation of mental health services

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Funding

Analysis: Spring Budget 2025 analysis: What is the outlook for health and social care?

Explainer: Enough funding for the NHS?

Explainer: Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?

Explainer: Years of underfunding and the resulting deficits

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Policy

News: SubCos return, in threat to NHS pay and conditions

Analysis: NHS shakeup slashes jobs, will it help cut waiting lists?

Analysis: NHS must brace for hidden costs of disability benefit cuts

Explainer: Virtual wards

Explainer: Integrated care systems explained

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Campaigning

News: Disputes over fair pay continue

Analysis: Will Wes Streeting listen to health campaigners?

Explainer: How can the public scrutinise their ICB?

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Social Care and the NHS

News: Solving the social care problem

Explainer: Social care workforce crisis

Explainer: Delayed discharge explainer: health and care pressure

Background: Why do we need a national care service and what form could it take?

 

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The NHS vs other health services

Explainer: How does the NHS compare with health systems in equivalent countries?

Explainer: Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?