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Three local NHS CEOs join NHS England as directors

Three local NHS CEOs join NHS England as directors
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Two integrated care board chief executives and a trust CEO have been appointed as part-time national directors at NHS England.

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Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America

NHS can’t fix what’s already broken: too many are flabby, fat and lazy

I have groundbreaking NHS tech inside me – but then it failed

NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds

NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds

<p>Budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on care for obese patients, leading to ‘postcode lottery’</p><p>The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.</p><p>An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others.</p> <a href="NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds">Continue reading...</a>

Budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on care for obese patients, leading to ‘postcode lottery’

The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.

An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others.

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By Ian Sample Science editor

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NHS privatisation and PFI - what Lord Darzi’s review missed

Streeting welcomes 'oven-ready' NHS reform plan that criticises GP model

Streeting welcomes 'oven-ready' NHS reform plan that criticises GP model
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General practice should be re-shaped into a 'hub and spoke' model as part of a shift to a new neighbourhood NHS system, according to an 'oven-ready' reform plan that is deeply critical of the independent contractor model - and has been welcomed by the government.

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by Nick Bostock

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Streeting urges BMA to ‘stop sabre-rattling’ and work with him to fix NHS

Streeting urges BMA to ‘stop sabre-rattling’ and work with him to fix NHS

<p>Health secretary says damning report by Lord Darzi makes it clear ‘status quo of managed decline is not an option’</p><ul><li><a href="UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happened">UK politics live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p>The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has urged doctors’ union leaders to work with the government on its plans to change the NHS and to “stop sabre-rattling” on industrial action over pay.</p><p>Streeting said a <a href="Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds">damning report on Thursday</a> by the peer Ara Darzi made it clear that the “status quo of managed decline is not an option, nor is simply pouring ever increasing amounts of taxpayers’ money into a broken model”.</p> <a href="Streeting urges BMA to ‘stop sabre-rattling’ and work with him to fix NHS">Continue reading...</a>

Health secretary says damning report by Lord Darzi makes it clear ‘status quo of managed decline is not an option’


The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has urged doctors’ union leaders to work with the government on its plans to change the NHS and to “stop sabre-rattling” on industrial action over pay.

Streeting said a damning report on Thursday by the peer Ara Darzi made it clear that the “status quo of managed decline is not an option, nor is simply pouring ever increasing amounts of taxpayers’ money into a broken model”.

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Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds

Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds

<p>Detailed analysis warns Keir Starmer it will take longer than five years to get waiting times back on track</p><p>Long delays for hospital, GP and mental health services are leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths and have ruptured “the social contract between the NHS and the people”, an inquiry has concluded.</p><p>The findings of the study by Lord Ara Darzi, commissioned by Labour when it came to power, will be cited by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, who will on Thursday warn that the NHS has to “reform or die”.</p> <a href="Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds">Continue reading...</a>

Detailed analysis warns Keir Starmer it will take longer than five years to get waiting times back on track

Long delays for hospital, GP and mental health services are leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths and have ruptured “the social contract between the NHS and the people”, an inquiry has concluded.

The findings of the study by Lord Ara Darzi, commissioned by Labour when it came to power, will be cited by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, who will on Thursday warn that the NHS has to “reform or die”.

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By Denis Campbell and Jessica Elgot

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What are the ‘unthinkable’ reforms Labour could bring to the NHS?

Transcript: A terminal diagnosis for the NHS?

Long NHS delays leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds

Over 616,000 patients waiting to start NHS treatment in Wales

Over 616,000 patients waiting to start NHS treatment in Wales
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More than 616,000 people across Wales are waiting to start treatment in the NHS. The worrying new figures, released by the Welsh Government today, is the equivalent of one-in-four people in Wales on a waiting list. 616,700 individual patients are yet to begin their NHS treatment – the highest figure on record. The number of […]

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by Deeside Dotcom

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The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

Surge in NHS retirees with six-figure pensions

NHS commits to ending deadly delays in Parkinson medication first revealed by The Telegraph

Newspaper headlines: 'Biggest NHS reform ever' after 'damning' report

NHS trust appoints new midwives amid Nottingham maternity review

NHS reports increase in female genital mutilation cases

Saving our NHS

Therapy garden at NHS centre is praised for supporting patients

NHS staff drafted into schools to coach lockdown children on potty training

Essex comedian received £30k from NHS care board for 'social media' payments

Darzi’s NHS diagnosis is largely right – now the government needs to act

Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’

Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’

Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘terrorist attack every day’

A senior doctor repeatedly broke down in tears as he described how the Covid crisis for NHS staff was like having to respond to a “terrorist attack every day”, with infected patients “raining from the sky”.

Prof Kevin Fong, a former clinical adviser in emergency preparedness, resilience and response at NHS England who was on shift during the 7/7 London bombings, said the scale of death in hospitals at the height of the pandemic was “shocking” and “truly astounding”.

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By Andrew Gregory Health editor

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Why talk of NHS reforms may give you a sense of deja-vu

Noble visions have been proposed for the NHS before. Will this time be different?

More cash won't save the NHS

More strikes averted as biggest NHS union votes to accept pay offer

Darzi review says the NHS is in a critical condition but sets out a treatment plan

Darzi review says the NHS is in a critical condition but sets out a treatment plan

<p>Cancer surgeon says the service’s ‘vital signs are strong’ but its workforce must be re-energised to raise productivity</p><p>Even factoring in the many manifestations over recent years of the NHS’s deep crisis, some of Lord Ara Darzi’s findings in his verdict on the state of the service are arresting. A&E is in such “an awful state” that <a href="Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds">thousands of people die every year</a> because they aren’t seen there fast enough.</p><p>“Starving” the service of vital capital funding has left “crumbling buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victorian-era cells infested with vermin with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit portable buildings”. Efforts to improve early diagnosis of cancer saw “no progress whatsoever made … between 2013 and 2021”, despite many lives depending on that.</p> <a href="Darzi review says the NHS is in a critical condition but sets out a treatment plan">Continue reading...</a>

Cancer surgeon says the service’s ‘vital signs are strong’ but its workforce must be re-energised to raise productivity

Even factoring in the many manifestations over recent years of the NHS’s deep crisis, some of Lord Ara Darzi’s findings in his verdict on the state of the service are arresting. A&E is in such “an awful state” that thousands of people die every year because they aren’t seen there fast enough.

“Starving” the service of vital capital funding has left “crumbling buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victorian-era cells infested with vermin with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit portable buildings”. Efforts to improve early diagnosis of cancer saw “no progress whatsoever made … between 2013 and 2021”, despite many lives depending on that.

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By Denis Campbell Health policy editor

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'The latest NHS innovation and why it's not working'

Only half of NHS staff are medics - no wonder the health service doesn't work

Another NHS dental service lost on Anglesey

Sir Keir Starmer says there is no money for the NHS without reform, as he admits plan will take 'years not months'

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