After a week of turmoil, one thing needs saying about our NHS: slowly it is healing | Polly Toynbee

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After a week of turmoil, one thing needs saying about our NHS: slowly it is healing | Polly Toynbee

Times are tough and funding remains below the historic average, but in key areas there are welcome signs of hope

Reorganisation – or re-disorganisation – is the perennial disease in the NHS. If I listed all the structural acronyms throughout the decades, and the new staff starting new jobs with new brass nameplates, it would fill this page.

This week, Wes Streeting accepted the resignation of NHS England’s chief executive, Amanda Pritchard, after ousting its chair, Richard Meddings, signalling an effective merger in all but name with Streeting’s own department. Whitehall says NHS England will have “a smaller, leaner role”, with thousands of duplicated jobs lost.

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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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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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