Report: The NHS at 70 – How good is the NHS?
To mark the BBC’s coverage of the NHS’s 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust
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Ex-health ministers call for more streamlined NHS and free social care at point of need
The NHS could benefit from a “radical simplification” of streamlining and making social care free at the point of need, former Labour and Tory health ministers have suggested. Lord Ara
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Thirteen NHS bodies face legal action over ‘forced’ residential care policies
Thirteen NHS bodies have been threatened with legal action over policies which “breach the human rights of patients”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is launching legal action against
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Nearly half of school leaders struggling to commission mental health services
Hundreds of school leaders say they have had difficulties commissioning mental health services for pupils, according to a survey published by children’s charity Place2Be. The research showed that while 84%
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Inquiry urges nationwide changes to care placements following cruelty at autism care home
Nationwide changes should be made to the way care placements are managed, a report has said, after an inquiry into the “cruel” mistreatment of residents at a care home for
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Review: Commissioning Arrangements for Looked After Children in London
The Institute of Public Care (IPC), Oxford Brookes University, has been appointed to conduct a review of the arrangements for commissioning fostering and residential care placements in London. The request
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Stephen Hawking campaign group wins judicial review of NHS ‘privatisation’ plans
A campaign group backed by Professor Stephen Hawking has been granted permission to challenge Jeremy Hunt in the High Court over plans to allow private companies to play a greater
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Hawking-backed campaigners launch legal action over plans to ‘Americanise’ NHS
A campaign group backed by Professor Stephen Hawking has officially filed High Court papers in a bid to force the Government to hold a full public consultation into greater privatisation
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Sexual health and HIV services at breaking point, claims Terrence Higgins Trust
NHS sexual health and HIV services are at “breaking point”, an Aids charity has claimed after an official report highlighted problems with commissioning. The Terrence Higgins Trust spoke out after
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Tribunals urged after study finds ‘unacceptable’ variations in healthcare access
Local health bodies should have to face a tribunal board if they have “overly restrictive commissioning policies”, a new report suggests. The recommendation comes after researchers found that there is
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