Let the “in-fighting” begin Charity leaders are warning the Government’s moves to give Greater Manchester power over health and social care spending could be flawed because voluntary organisations appear to have been forgotten in plans....
Richard Humphries, Assistant Director of Policy at the King’s Fund explores the options for integrated commissioning: The last reorganisation of the NHS has made the commissioning landscape much more complex and fragmented. Whatever the weaknesses...
Pensioners struggling without help from family, neighbours or state. Further cuts to care budgets will hit ageing population. Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent regarding the country’s leading charity representing older people stating there is...
NHS reforms see Cornwall emulate Manchester with a £2bn deal. Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent – Cornwall is set to win its own “NHS devolution” deal, which could see the county take control of...
Emily Dugan reports in The Independent today – Stringent new immigration rules will fuel a critical shortage of nurses in Britain, “cause chaos” in hospitals and cost the NHS millions, according to the Royal College...
Charlie Cooper in The Independent highlights the disgraceful state of affairs where medics will have money thrown at them to try to rectify a problem that should never have arisen – medics may be quids...
Medical misdiagnosis is a continuing problem in the NHS; although medical technology and our understanding of the human anatomy are improving all the time, the vast number of different illnesses and injuries that doctors have...
Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent – Only one in three people who are unhappy with their NHS care or with other public services actually complain, according to a survey conducted by the ombudsman. The...
Something else we already know! – NHS doctors who work in private healthcare “on the side” are directly harming the health service, a senior consultant has said. In an article in the medical journal the...
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...
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