by Sam | 28 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
New research by the Royal College of General Practitioners predicts that, in 2015, on more than 51.3million occasions, patients in England will be unable to get an appointment to see a GP or nurse when they contact their local practice. This will be up from...
by Sam | 25 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The Guardian has report on Freedom of Information requests by Shadow Public Health Minister Luciana Berger to England’s 211 CCGs have shown that 72 out of 142 CCGs which responded spend less than 10% of their budget on mental health services, while noting significant...
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...
