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NHS ‘reconfiguration’: not as scary as patients think
There is a good case for some A&E units closing, but people love their local hospitals. To win them over, those running the NHS need to use less jargon and be less patronising.
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The BMA tells Channel 4 News that Government plans for an overhaul of the NHS could lead to doctors being “pitted against one another”.
What is the significance of the changes announced this week in the NHS white paper? Channel 4 News social affairs correspondent Victoria Macdonald answers your questions.
Is Labour right to saythe Conservatives would “scrap your right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks and your right to be treated within 18 weeks”? FactCheck checks it out.
The Conservative Party claims it can pay for all cancer drugs on the NHS from the money it “saves” by not implementing the National Insurance rise.
An independent inquiry into standards of care at Stafford hospital has found that patients were “routinely neglected” by an NHS trust that was preoccupied with cost-cutting, targets and processes.
The Conservatives say there is a funding black hole in the government’s national care service plans – do the numbers add up?
“People can for £8,000 or thereabouts as a single premium at retirement meet the future costs of their residential care .” Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health Secretary, BBC Today, 12 February 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out The Conservatives have spent the week warning us of a £20,000 “death tax” – the price we may all…
There is a good case for some A&E units closing, but people love their local hospitals. To win them over, those running the NHS need to use less jargon and be less patronising.
NHS Direct is to close most of its call centres with the loss of hundreds of nursing and other jobs, union leaders claim.
Ed M’s team has been giving some thought and training to the Labour leader on how to walk exuding confidence and how to sit in interviews.
David Cameron’s NHS speech was about selling the overall idea of NHS reform and convincing people he’s not introducing a rampant unrestrained market, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Hospital waiting times are at a three year high and the percentage of patients waiting longer than four hours in accident and emergency rose sharply at the end of 2010, reports Victoria Macdonald.
As the accident and emergency unit at Queen Mary’s hospital in Kent closes due to staff shortages, a Channel 4 News investigation reveals a third of hospitals are struggling with the same problem.