Victoria Macdonald
NHS: extra money ‘not enough’ to meet government’s ambitions
Few believe that the extra money will do much more than pay off the ever increasing deficits and meet increased pension demands.
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‘At some point negotiations have to end’, says health committee chair
We spoke to the Conservative MP Steve Brine, who chairs the Health and Social Care Committee.
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NHS strikes: unprecedented action by consultants and junior doctors in England
Now this year has been marked by repeated strike action across the UK: today it was England’s NHS consultants walking out again.
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A safety checklist for hospitals?
The NHS is facing one of its worst winters for years with warnings that increased patient numbers, fewer beds, and less money will increase pressures on an already struggling system.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Victoria Macdonald
How neglect by an NHS hospital contributed to a teenager’s death
This is the second inquest in five days where a young person has died and the finding has been “contributed to by neglect”.
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Victoria Macdonald
The ‘revolving door of care’: unsafe hospital discharges
The homeless, older people, those with mental health conditions. These are the patients whose voices we rarely hear. Even when it goes wrong and the NHS lets them down.
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Victoria Macdonald
New duty of candour legislation creates ‘two-tier health system’
New rules obliging the NHS to report when something has gone wrong, are not to be applied to private clinics and GPs, warns a patients’ charity.
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Alex Thomson
Syria’s remaining hospitals under bombardment
It appears that the already severely degraded medical services available to civilians in Syria are diminishing fast under assault from barrel bombs.
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Victoria Macdonald
Burnham in spotlight for Labour’s 10-year NHS plan
If this winter has identified anything it is that the health and social care system is not working together as well as it should. Indeed, some less kindly souls might say it’s barely working at all.
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Victoria Macdonald
Patient log jam in hospital? Send for the Red Cross
An NHS hospital has called in the Red Cross to help with what is rather pejoratively called bed blocking.
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Victoria Macdonald
Can a new plan ease fears over the struggling NHS?
A new report by Chief Executive Simon Stevens lays out a way forward for the NHS – but will it assuage concern over the private sector’s role in the health service?
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Victoria Macdonald
Why sorry can be the hardest word for doctors
There are many doctors who would gladly have apologised when a mistake has been made but who will have been told by their management or their lawyers that they should do no such thing.
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FactCheck: is the NHS on its death-bed?
Labour goes on the attack over the government’s handling of the NHS, but David Cameron says things are improving. FactCheck gets its scalpel out.
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Victoria Macdonald
The parents waiting two years to find out why their babies died
A Channel 4 News investigation has found that parents whose babies die at birth, or shortly after, are being denied inquests to find out what happened.
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Victoria Macdonald
Government pushes through ‘hospital closure clause’
The government could be facing a cross-party revolt on the care bill, which would give it greater powers to close or downgrade hospital services.