NHS Providers
Increasing number of NHS bodies failing to break even, report warns
The report by the National Audit Office on the financial management and sustainability of the NHS is the first to be published since 2020.
Children risk becoming ‘forgotten generation’ due to NHS waits – report
One trust reported that waiting times for children’s autism assessments had increased from around 14 months pre-pandemic to 38 months now.
Burnout a barrier to NHS productivity growth as leaders call for more support
NHS Providers said it is ‘encouraging’ to see how trusts are ‘finding positive solutions in the face of extraordinary pressures’.
Patients dying in hospital corridors amid NHS ‘national emergency’, nurses warn
The Royal College of Nursing revealed patients are being left without access to oxygen and enduring intimate examinations in inappropriate areas.
Extra 700,000 people of working age ‘will live with major illnesses by 2040’
Analysis by the Health Foundation suggests 23% more working-age adults will be diagnosed with a major illness by 2040.
More than 2,000 NHS buildings ‘older than health service itself’
Issues reported in older buildings were understood to include sewage leaks and broken lifts.
Plans to cut Royal Mail deliveries ‘could worsen patient safety risks’
The chief executives of Healthwatch England, National Voices, The Patients Association and NHS Providers have ‘raised direct concerns’.
Significant weaknesses found in ‘optimistic’ NHS workforce plan, report says
The NHS long term workforce plan aims to add more than 300,000 extra staff over a 15-year period.
Poverty hinders access to timely NHS care, think tank warns
The situation was described as a ‘cruel irony’ as one of the ‘founding principles of the NHS is that it is free at the point of need’.
People with learning disabilities ‘dying too young and from preventable causes’
The Nuffield Trust is calling for health checks and screening to be made more accessible to people with learning disabilities.