by Sam | 29 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that more NHS hospitals and youth services should be taken out of public hands and owned by the people who run them as mutuals, the Guardian reports. The senior Conservative MP said he was increasingly convinced this was...
by Sam | 24 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
Nineteen NHS trusts have been referred to the Health Secretary after auditors raised concerns about their financial viability, representing an almost four-fold rise from five last year. The Audit Commission reviewed 98 trusts running a combination of hospital,...
by Sam | 17 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The King’s Fund has published its Quarterly Monitoring Report on NHS performance. It notes that, in its fourth year of effectively no real increase in funding and undiminished urgency to generate more care to meet growing demands, the NHS is under huge pressure...
by Sam | 15 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new guidelines on safe staffing levels for nurses. NICE said checks should be carried out if there are more than eight patients to one nurse on a ward in the day. The new guidelines identify a...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
An investigation conducted by the BBC has found that some patients are going to A&E units in the UK more than fifty times per year. Data collected from 183 sites, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, found nearly 12,000 people made more than ten visits...
