Tag: NHS Crisis

Striking doctors are being warned that the NHS will start formally collecting evidence of the harm to patients caused by their refusal to help struggling hospitals.

The junior doctors continue to strike during the winter permacrisis. But a 35% pay rise is not going to stop the NHS's march towards ever greater levels of inefficiency, which is tied to the growth in part-time medics.

NHS bosses are offering a £100,000 contract for "anti-racism" consultancy services, despite cash-strapped hospitals mulling scaling back operations this winter to balance the books.

It’s that time of the year when the first murmurings of winter crisis emerge in the NHS and politicians scramble to 'do something'. But will this year's 'Winter Plan' be any better than those before it?

Deaths from heart failure in recent weeks have been 27% above the pre-pandemic baseline. It's hard to see how the NHS crisis is to blame as cancer and dementia deaths are normal. So what's going on?

NHS waiting lists have soared to another record high following the wave of strike-induced carnage, adding to the toll of the pandemic years and leaving one in eight people waiting in an NHS queue.

The Government's proposals to sort out the longstanding problems with the NHS workforce are just more of the same medicine that has never worked yet, says our in-house doctor.

The BMA's demand for a 35% pay-rise for NHS doctors when taxes are at a 70-year high is unjustified, says our in-house doctor. What's really needed is a boost to their productivity, but the BMA is a major obstacle to that.

David Hansard writes on the brewing scandal of the NHS Ombudsman who, since Covid, has 'deleted' thousands of complaints he is supposed to investigate and refused to commit to a return to normal service.

Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.