For years the NHS has been short of staff – including GPs. The Health Foundation shows that the UK has only 3.93 doctors per 100,000 people- the lowest in Europe. It has just 2.42 beds per read more…
A recent survey by Unison, one of the key NHS unions, shows that health workers are now routinely facing exhaustion and burnout. With the continuing pandemic and the growing backlog of patients needing treatment plus normal read more…
Winter is always a difficult time for the NHS. But thanks to the knock-on effects of Covid, the limits of the NHS capacity are only too obvious. Nowhere are the NHS problems more exposed than in read more…
Malcolm Alexander, Chair of the Patients’ Forum for the London Ambulance Service, has brought HAFSON some welcome news. 4/11/21 The London Ambulance Services plan to close 68 ambulance stations and replace them by 18 super-hubs across read more…
Covid-19 is pushing us back into a bad place. Case numbers are now hitting over 40,000 cases per day and the number of deaths, sadly, are also moving upwards. This should not be happening. Early this read more…
Media coverage of the Commons’ Covid Report tore away Boris’s defence of his government’s handling of the Covid Crisis. ITV highlighted multiple incompetencies and serious errors and delays that cost lives; Sky said this was ‘A read more…
Caroline Molloy, Editor of Open Democracy UK and OurNHS journalist, writes about the dangers of the new NHS Bill which has just its 2nd reading in parliament. If the bill passes without key amendments, it will read more…
From Prof Allyson M. Pollock and Peter Roderick The Health and Care Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 6 July 2021 is a major reorganisation of the NHS in England which will complete the read more…
Frances Ryan, prominent disability campaigner and writer, points out in The Guardian (18.7.21) that what some call Freedom Day is anything but for many disabled people. Disabled people have died in appalling numbers during the pandemic and read more…
Patients now have until September to opt out of plans to share GP medical records with third parties. HAFSON agrees with journalist Tammy Lovell that the victory in delaying the NHS data grab is both welcome read more…
