NHS urges private healthcare to share patient data and boost care in winter crisis December 14, 2022 The NHS has urged private healthcare operators to share data across the health network to boost patient care amid a winter crisis. A report by the NHS’ Acute Data Alignment Programme has doubled down on its bid to create a single source of healthcare data in England, saying it could improve the quality of treatment [...]
Fewer hospital beds and rising staff sickness dragging down NHS, says IFS December 14, 2022 The NHS is less productive now than it was before the pandemic despite an increase in spending each year since 2019. In October 2022, the NHS carried out 14 per cent fewer emergency admissions, 14 per cent fewer outpatient appointments and 11 per cent fewer elective and maternity admissions than in the same month in 2019, [...]
10,000 ambulance workers vote to strike before Christmas November 30, 2022 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike before Christmas. Emergency workers in the GMB Union will walk out before the end of the year, with representatives across nine services to meet and decide dates. This comes as the cost of living crisis continues to pile pressure on people’s finances, with the NHS struggling to attract [...]
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Nurses to walk out for two days in run up to Christmas with more strikes likely November 25, 2022 Nurses will strike on two days in the run up to Christmas with more dates likely to be announced. The Royal College of Nursing announced that healthcare workers would walk out on Thursday 15 and Tuesday 20 December. They said in meetings with the government, ministers ‘sidestep the serious issues of NHS pay and patient [...]
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Hospitals warned that NHS staff may have to exit procedures to care for other patients November 15, 2022 NHS bosses and watchdogs have warned hospitals that staff may have to “depart from established procedures” to care for other patients this winter. In a letter revealed today, medical and regulatory chiefs told hospital bosses that should NHS staff have to exit procedures to fulfil other duties during heightened hospital admissions, that watchdogs will consider [...]
Government goes head to head with Britain’s nurses: ‘Simply not affordable’ November 11, 2022 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has dismissed pay demands from unions representing nurses across Britain, calling them “simply not affordable.” His remark comes as the threat of strike action that will hit operations and appointments looms. Sunak said he shared the public’s “respect and gratitude” for nurses, and that he was pleased the Health Secretary was [...]
Nurses to strike before the end of the year in historic vote November 9, 2022 Nurses in the UK have voted in favour of striking before the end of the year, in the first walkout of its kind. NHS appointments are set to be cancelled after the historic vote from members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union. RCN said its members in the majority of NHS employers in [...]
NHS plans to use Palantir data collection software could face legal challenges, campaigners say November 7, 2022 NHS plans to collect patient data using software developed by controversial US tech firm Palantir could be challenged in court. Campaigners have said they are considering filing a judicial review to challenge the plans, which would see NHS patient data processed using Palantir’s Foundry analytics platform. The threat of legal action comes after the UK government cancelled a [...]