The coalition government will leave office with the NHS in the red for the first time in a decade – and with waiting times at their highest in years, independent experts have warned. In a...
The NHS confirmed that 190,000 more people attended A&E this winter compared with last winter, with 51,000 more admitted into hospital as an emergency case. Attendances spiked in December, but the pressure on hospitals was...
Emily Dugan writing in The Independent – Older people have been hit with a “double whammy” of cuts to social care and a huge drop in the number of community nurses to help them at...
Politicians argue about waiting lists and targets, but it’s first hand hospital experience that paints the most telling picture. Sonia Purnell writing in The Independent on Sunday on this years very worrying reports about the...
Several daily newspapers have, today, highlighted the delays in admitting patients to hospital from A&E because of a shortage of beds. This is leading to “hundreds of deaths per year” in the UK, the royal...
Charlie Cooper of The Independent reports that the only NHS hospital run by a private company has asked for a £10m tax-payer funded bailout. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is due to be handed back to...
A crisis-hit NHS hospital has had Army medics treating patients. Patients were shocked to see the troops on duty at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, last month. Last year the hospital’s A&E department was...
Care of the elderly is in a state of “calamitous, quite rapid decline”, a leading charity boss has warned, with hundreds of thousands fewer people receiving care than five years ago. More than £1bn has...
Patients who use A&E after getting drunk should pay for treatment, the majority of Brits believe. An exclusive poll for The Sun also found huge support for charging drug users and foreign tourists. Around 80%...
So now we know – it’s the NHS 111 service that’s caused 95 per cent of the rise in patients attending A&E. Of the 450,000 extra people who went to A&E last year, 220,000 were...
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