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12 Jun 19
Patients are being put at risk by the “unacceptable” failure of NHS trusts to meet waiting list targets, according to a critical new report.
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11 Jun 19
Nearly one in five children in England start school with poor speech and language skills as English regions suffer funding cuts for therapy, research has found.
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11 Jun 19
The government urged for public health services’ commissioning to be more joined-up, as it confirmed the responsibility would remain with local authorities.
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11 Jun 19
Managers have a vital role to play in promoting day-to-day health and wellbeing at work and supporting a cultural shift that will benefit both individuals and the organisation, writes CIPFA’s...
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4 Jun 19
The interim NHS People Plan has outlined an “increasing role” for Integrated Care Systems in addressing workforce challenges.
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4 Jun 19
Sure Start centres – that have been closing in their hundreds over the past decade - offer major health benefits to disadvantaged children, a think-tank has found.
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31 May 19
GP practice closures in the UK hit record levels last year as the health service deals with a workforce crisis, an investigation has found.
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30 May 19
Nurses love their jobs but employers need to stem their rising work pressures, stress and poor mental health, says NHS Employers’s Sue Covill.
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28 May 19
Our health and social care services will suffer if the government does not invest in public health, says Cancer Research UK’s Alison Cox.
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23 May 19
Making social care free at the point of need for over 65s could save the NHS £4.5bn each year by 2030, according to think-tank analysis.
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21 May 19
A growing number of children are being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.
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20 May 19
The government must replace the £1bn that it “catastrophically ripped out” of nursing higher education, the head of the Royal College of Nursing will say.
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15 May 19
Urgent and radical decentralisation will have to depend on resource-based expenditure if we are to rebalance the economy through a strong local state, argues Joe Fyans, head of research at Localis.
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14 May 19
The time is right for a “system-wide rethink” on public health investment, CIPFA has said.
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9 May 19
Charities, mayors, think-tanks and umbrella groups have called on the health and communities secretaries to increase investment in public health.
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7 May 19
The Labour party has revealed that alarming numbers of ambulance staff are leaving their jobs because of rising work levels and poor morale.
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2 May 19
The NHS has “plunged deeper into crisis” after services reported the worst performance rates on record over the winter period, a trade body has found.
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26 Apr 19
The health secretary has warned “things must change” to eliminate the NHS’s gender pay gap.
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25 Apr 19
Extra pressure could be placed on the NHS as doctors reduce their workloads because of tax charged on pension contributions, according to the British Medical Association.
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16 Apr 19
A quarter of NHS nursing wards in England are operating with “high-risk” staffing levels, research has found.
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11 Apr 19
Dementia is the UK’s biggest health concern, so how should the social care Green Paper address it? Paul Edwards of Dementia UK has some answers.
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10 Apr 19
The growing pay divide between people working directly for the NHS and outsourcing staff is impacting patient care, a union has warned.
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5 Apr 19
Social care professionals have expressed disappointment after the publication of a green paper has been delayed again.
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3 Apr 19
Delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan is threatened by a “worrying level of disparity” in the financial performance of local health bodies, MPs have warned.
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3 Apr 19
The health service needs resources allocated in the right places, says CIPFA’s Eleanor Roy.