A new report on reducing NHS waiting times for planned (or elective) care, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has revealed that despite NHSE spending £3.24bn…
Read more...The NHS may have to cut frontline staff or services due to the financial impact of further strikes on already squeezed budgets, health leaders warn….
Read more...England’s health service has recorded its first reduction in waiting lists after three consecutive months of increases, according to newly released data that will offer…
Read more...The NHS has issued a ‘flu jab SOS’, with England’s top nurse warning people to get protected now, with only weeks to go before the…
Read more...Almost one in five patients in Emergency Departments were being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors in England this summer, with so-called ‘corridor…
Read more...NHS productivity has grown by 2.4% in the first 4 months of this financial year (April to July 2025) compared to the same period last…
Read more...NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation have today confirmed plans to merge, paving the way for a new organisation to represent frontline NHS organisations across…
Read more...Government plans to move more NHS care into the community and out of hospitals won’t be achievable unless action is taken to address the dire…
Read more...A social care champion has warned that a lack of fair funding from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is worsening the crisis in hospital discharges…
Read more...Flu and COVID-19 vaccines have been rolled out for all eligible people to help ‘winter-proof’ those most vulnerable and the NHS amid new variants circulating…
Read more...A new study has revealed how NHS waiting lists are pushing patients into risky choices – with some delaying or even avoiding care altogether, despite…
Read more...NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) – a package of free health and social care provided outside of hospital which the NHS pays for – is failing…
Read more...More than 20 CEOs and Directors from across social care gathered in London last week for a roundtable organised by The Access Group and Casson…
Read more...A social care champion says Reform UK’s “potentially catastrophic” plan to threaten legal immigrants with deportation would put vulnerable people at risk in Wales. Mario…
Read more...The NHS is running ‘stress test’ exercises and providing targeted care for vulnerable patients, as it strengthens its plans to winter-proof the health service. Throughout…
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