Professor Keith Willett, Medical Director for Acute Care, NHS England, writing for the King’s Fund: Considers the conversation around the changing nature of care. Medicine has changed enormously since the foundation of the NHS; GPs...
Since sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) published their plans late last year, the issue of the number of NHS hospital beds has been rising up the health care agenda. Alongside integrating health and social care...
Exploring patient flow trends within the hospital urgent care system. Manchester Conference Centre – Thursday, 21st September 2017 The NHS continues to make headline news as it struggles to meet demands amidst the realisation that...
20th March 2017 Almost 9 out of 10 GPs (89%) think reductions in social care are leading to extra pressures in their surgeries. Even more (93%) think that the lack of social care is leading...
The NHS Five Year Forward View was published on 23 October 2014 and sets out a new shared vision for the future of the NHS based around the new models of care. It has been...
Charlie Cooper writing for The Independent: Netnums poll in wake of death of William Mead finds 78% of mothers would bypass 111 service The vast majority of mothers would go straight to A&E rather than...
Steven Morris for The Guardian 20/01/2016, gives us a viewpoint from Steve Hulks a community paramedic practitioner in Kent, whose job is about advising, reassuring – and easing pressure on A&E You do get a...
A series of crucial targets were missed in November including waiting time for urgent cancer treatment and ambulances Denis Campbell and Haroon Siddique writing for The Guardian (14/01/2016): Growing numbers of patients are waiting longer than...
Charlie Cooper writing in The Independent (15/10/2015) – The health watchdog NICE had been told by NHS England to suspend its research on safe staffing levels in June. The health watchdog NICE ditched plans to make...
Nick McDermott reports in The Sun – A great-grandad with dementia and Parkinson’s was left on a hospital trolley for 33 hours before he eventually died. The bungled treatment of ex-factory worker Graham Philips, 66,...
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