More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
Over 70 years have passed since the NHS was established; if the best minds in organisational thinking have been unable to come up with solutions in that time, perhaps there are none, writes Dr Andrew Bamji.
More than 13,300 NHS hospital beds – one in seven – were filled with patients fit for discharge but unable to leave each day last month, triple the pre-pandemic figure, as excess non-Covid deaths continue to climb.
Why is the NHS in crisis and why have there been thousands of excess deaths since the spring? An Emergency Department doctor says what he sees on the frontline, including a spike in heart attacks since the vaccinations.
The NHS is in a perpetual winter crisis, something that more than doubling the budget in the 2000s did nothing to change. With beds already 95% occupied, will Therese Coffey's plan to get us through the winter work?
Brace for panic as England's autumn Covid wave begins, with figures showing both infections and virus admissions to hospital starting to surge and patients up 48% in a week.
All ambulance trusts in England were put on the highest alert on Tuesday amid long waiting times of many hours in some cases. But 999 calls aren't higher than usual. What's going on?
The number of patients waiting for routine hospital treatment in England has soared to a new record of 6.18 million, as ambulance and emergency department waits also reach all-time highs.
Several NHS Trusts have issued acute pressure warnings, telling people to stay away if possible. But the 'perfect storm' they say they are experiencing is more a self-induced squall.
NHS beds are being blocked by 'well' patients, new figures show, with 16% of beds occupied by those fit to leave, and 71% of the fit-to-leave failing to be discharged, adding to hospital pressures.
