New Plan to Make it Easier for Patients to See Their GP
Patients will be able to contact their general practice more easily and quickly – and find out exactly how their request will be handled on…
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Solving the GP Workforce Crisis Must be a Top Priority for NHS Recovery says BMA
Responding to a new plan by the NHS and Government to support GPs and primary care, which is to be announced in full later this…
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Cost of Unpaid Care in England and Wales Now Exceeds that of NHS Budget
The value of unpaid care in England and Wales is now estimated to be £162 billion, exceeding that of the entire NHS budget in England…
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NHS Vaccinates Half of Care Home Residents in Three Weeks
The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme has vaccinated more than 150,000 older adult care home residents in England in just three weeks since the campaign began…
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NHS Employers Letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
NHS Employers have written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care ahead of the proposed industrial action by the RCN for the…
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NHS “Must be Reformed” to Deliver Care Patients Want says Wes Streeting
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said the NHS must be reformed rather than “pouring more money into hospitals”. In a speech to the King’s…
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Over Half a Million Appointments Now Cancelled Due to Industrial Action
MORE than 200,000 appointments and operations were cancelled in last week’s doctors’ strike. It takes the total above half a million since stoppages began in…
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Disingenuous to Link Excess Deaths with Strike Days, says BMA
Responding to reports in the Telegraph linking a rise in excess deaths with the last round of junior doctors’ strikes in England, Professor David Strain,…
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NHS Confederation Responds to RCN and UNISON Pay Ballot Outcomes
Responding to the outcome of RCN and Unison member ballots on the government’s pay offer, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “While…
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Cost of Living Squeeze is Forcing health Workers to Relocate says Senior NHS Leader
The NHS in Surrey’s problems retaining staff have been laid bare after a leading NHS boss revealed it is repeatedly losing workers to the Midlands…
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Local Care Homes Celebrate Superstar Staff Member
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Southgate Beaumont and Hugh Myddelton House Care Homes in Enfield are over the moon because one of their much-loved staff…
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‘NHS Workforce Plan Cannot Come Soon Enough’: BMA Responds to Budget
Responding to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, Dr Emma Runswick, BMA council deputy chair, said: “When patients are suffering record waits for care and the…
Read more...BMA Says 3.5% Pay Recommendation is “More than Just Insulting” to Thousands of NHS Workers
The government has asked the NHSPRB to cap the next NHS pay rise at just 3.5% – significantly below inflation. In evidence submitted late to…
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Junior Doctors in England Vote Overwhelmingly for Strike Action
Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast a vote, voted…
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NHS Crisis is “Largely a Crisis in Older People’s Preventive Care Warns Age UK
A new in-depth report from the Charity Age UK, ‘Fixing the Foundations’, reveals how our under-funded and overstretched NHS and social care system is struggling…
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