by Sam | 14 Aug 2014 | Uncategorized
Disproportionate funding cuts mean mental health services are “running dangerously close to collapse”, Professor Simon Wessely told the Guardian today in his first interview since being elected President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Despite the Health...
by Sam | 30 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The Department of Health has published the annual report on research and development work relating to assistive technology for 2013-14. The report provides information about the wide range of government funded projects supporting the development, introduction and...
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 | 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 | 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...
