Issues

Protect and promote a comprehensive NHS

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Staffing

News: Reverse the “dire state” of community nursing

News: GPs warn of problems with new targets for all-day access

News: GPs to enter dispute with Government over contract changes

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: Private equity “decimated” US hospitals according to report – now it's targeting the NHS

News: New ICB figures show uneven trends on use of private sector?

News: Time to act on profiteering from NHS eye ops

Explainer: Can the private sector help shrink waiting lists?

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

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Infrastructure

News: Backlog maintenance bills are dragging down our NHS – new figures show

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: Ten year plan - how do promises of prevention measure up?

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: Do claims of waiting list improvement stand-up?

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: Labour in denial over unfair treatment of mental health patients?

News: Mental health emergency response expanded

News: Children waiting and rejected for mental healthcare

Background: The privatisation of mental health services

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Funding

News: Nottingham trust goes public over cuts and job losses

Analysis: Is the NHS really a winner from the spending review?

Explainer: NHS funding after the spending review

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

Explainer: Years of underfunding and the resulting deficits

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Policy

News: Mackey wrong-footed as Treasury refuses to cover £1b redundancy costs

Analysis: Keeping track of Labour’s policy contortions

News: Government change course after lobbying on NHS spin-off companies

Comment: Ten Year Plan – A tour of the dead ends

Comment: Streeting dredges up failed policies from 2000s

Explainer: Virtual wards

Explainer: Integrated care systems explained

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Campaigning

News: NHS shakeup shutting out community voices?

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: Patients unable to leave hospital cost the NHS £2bn a year

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?

Explainer: What's so good about the NHS