NHS to Roll Out Variant Busting Booster Jab from September Ahead of Winter
The NHS will become the first healthcare system in the world to use the next generation, bivalent COVID vaccine when it kickstarts the autumn booster…
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NHS Winter Plan Shows Promise, but More Must be Done to Tackle the Workforce Crisis, says BMA
Responding to NHS England’s letter on the next steps in increasing capacity and operational resilience in urgent and emergency care ahead of winter, Professor Philip…
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RCN Scotland to Ballot NHS Members on Industrial Strike Action
Royal College of Nursing members working in NHS Scotland are to be balloted on industrial strike action. The move comes after members voted overwhelmingly to…
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‘Commit to Full Pay Restoration or Prepare to Face Industrial Action’, BMA tells Government
The BMA will ballot junior doctor members in England for industrial action if the Government does not commit to full restoration of junior doctors’ pay…
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Sunak Proposes to Fine Patients for Missed Appointments
Rishi Sunak has pledged to introduce fines for patients who miss GP and hospital appointments as part of a shake-up of the NHS. The former…
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LGA Responds to NHS Confederation Report on Social Care
The Local Government association has responded to a report which highlights that staffing gaps and a lack of capacity in social care are putting the…
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Persistent Understaffing of NHS a Serious Risk to Patient Safety, Warn MPs
The NHS and social care face the greatest workforce crisis in their history, compounded by the absence of a credible government strategy to tackle the…
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Under-Funded Pay Deal Could Plunge Primary Care into a Deepened Workforce Crisis
Patients could face longer waits to see their GP and reduced primary care services, following the Government’s refusal to fund in full the NHS’s pay…
Read more...NHS Leaders Facing Real Terms Cut in Funding and ‘impossible Choices’ Over Which Areas of Patient Care to Cut Back
NHS leaders face impossible choices over whether to cut patient care or reduce investment in much needed diagnostic capacity and new technology after a series…
Read more...Health Leaders Call for a ‘Realism Reset’ for the NHS from the PM Candidates
As the Conservative leadership campaign continues, NHS leaders are urging the remaining candidates – and the future Prime Minister – to level with the public…
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Latest NHS Data Signals Pressure Across Whole Health and Care System
Responding to the publication of the monthly NHS performance statistics and GP patient survey, Tim Gardner, Senior Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation said: ‘These…
Read more...New Analysis Reveals Future NHS Beds Shortage
With England having fewer beds per person than comparable countries, new analysis raises big questions for incoming government over where investment should go to alleviate…
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Rising COVID Case Numbers Causing Real Concern for NHS Leaders
Responding to the latest ONS Covid infection survey Dr Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said: “Covid hospitalisations are rising, and this…
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NHS Releases Mental Health Medicines Statistics for 2020-21 in England
NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has released annual statistics as well as the latest quarterly summary statistics, covering January – March 2022. Five groups of…
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Plan for Digital Health and Social Care Will Help Alleviate Staffing Pressures Across the NHS
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has welcomed the plan for digital health and social care announced today by the Department for Health and…
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