Tag: NHS

More than 400,000 children and young people are being treated for mental health problems – the highest number on record. This is the legacy of the lockdowns.

NHS hospitals have once again been told to scrap any patient visiting restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic so that "no patient has to be alone unless through their choice".

NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the start of the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce, a new report reveals, as a record 6.4 million people are on waiting lists.

Masks have gone in most parts of UK society now, but healthcare settings like GP surgeries remain a notable exception. Why are medics the last holdout of the masking obsession, and what can be done about it?

The NHS may be popular with politicians but it no longer is with the public – and with good reason, according to a new report from think tank Civitas.

Doctors say the NHS is facing its worse crisis since records began – but it's nothing to do with Covid. Rather, a shortage of care home staff is preventing hospitals from discharging elderly patients, causing a bottleneck.

In an original essay for the Daily Sceptic, retired GP Jon Garvey argues that the roots of the current shortage of GP appointments has its roots in New Labour's 2004 GP contract.

The NHS is in such chaos that the London Ambulance Service has asked for volunteers to drive emergency cases to hospital. Volunteers will have to use their own vehicles and will not get a siren and flashing lights.

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.

NHS chiefs are demanding the return of mandatory masking and other Covid restrictions to cope with 'perfect storm' of pressure on hospitals, in spite of evidence that infections from Omicron BA.2 have peaked.