London’s “complex and cluttered” health and care system is holding back plans to improve the health of its population, finds a new independent report from The King’s Fund.
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The NHS has lost more than 6,000 beds across the country over the last four years, according to new figures published by the British Medical Association (BMA).
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NHS Providers is calling for a greater focus on community services after finding that they have not been given enough priority at both local and national level to reach their potential.
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The financial position of the NHS remains in a perilous state, largely because of the continued focus on short-term fixes, concludes a new report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
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Working relationships within controversial sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) has strengthened significantly in the last five months, but NHS finance leads believe the capital being streamed into projects is simply not enough to reduce funding issues across the Service.
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The British Medical Association says the government has failed to address the funding crisis in the NHS with the budget, offering “little meaningful financial assistance” for the service which, it warns, is now “stretched to breaking point”.
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A damning report by the Public Accounts Committee warns that the NHS is facing huge challenges and, criticising “public bickering between key players running service”, stresses that a “united effort” is needed to resolve these for the long term.
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An analysis by the British Medical Association has concluded that the NHS will need at least £9.5 billion of capital funding to pay for sustainability and transformation plans, which are currently being drawn up in 44 ‘footprint’ areas with the aim of transforming and integrating health and social care services.
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The average length of a GP consultation of 10 minutes in the UK is “crazy”, but family doctors are “ridiculously overworked” and in short supply, RCGP president Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard has told the BBC.
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A new report by health think-tank the King’s Fund has concluded that Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) do offer “the best hope to improve health and care services” despite widespread – and largely valid – criticism of the initiative
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