Scotland faces “real challenges” in recruiting GPs over the next decade, the First Minister has acknowledged, as she announced funding of £27 million to train more doctors, nurses and midwives.
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The head of the Royal College of GPs has said she is “shocked and dismayed” by the imposition of a new contract on junior doctors. Dr Maureen Baker, chairwoman of
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Thousands of junior doctors across England are on strike after last-ditch talks failed to reach an agreement. Junior doctors – all medics below consultant level – are providing emergency care
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Patients are less likely to die in hospitals where there are more nurses, researchers have suggested as they warned managers not to replace them with less qualified staff. Two new
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The practice of sending mentally ill people long distances for treatment should end, a commission has said, as experts branded some services “potentially dangerous”. Around 500 mentally ill people every
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Locum doctors and nurses are unfairly earning significantly more than their NHS counterparts by working for “rip-off agencies”, according to health sector regulators. Monitor and the NHS TDA (Trust Development
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Around 8,500 “bed-blocking” patients are stuck in NHS hospitals every day – costing the health service £900 million a year and driving up use of the private sector, a report
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The Department of Health has announced it will cut around 650 jobs to reduce its running costs. Non-senior staff numbers will be slashed from 1,800 to between 1,200 and 1,300
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Reductions to council’s public health grants are “cuts to the NHS in all but name”, council leaders have said. The Local Government Association warned there would be a “major impact”
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An independent commission has called for a fundamental change to the way care for older people is designed and delivered, so that care is tailored around individuals rather than institutions.
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