Issues
Protect and promote a comprehensive NHS
Patient Safety
News: Critical incidents signal emergency departments beyond safe limits
News: NHS still failing to prioritise all the most serious emergency patients
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
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
Waiting Lists and Rationing
Mental Health Services
Funding
News: How trusts are being forced to make cuts
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
Policy
News: NHS workforce plans in chaos amid vacancies and unemployed professionals
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
Campaigning
Social Care and the NHS
News: Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care
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?
