As many as 1,165 people starved to death in NHS hospitals over the past four years fuelling claims nurses are too busy to feed their patients. The Department of Health branded the figures ‘unacceptable’ and said the number of unannounced … Continue reading
Hospitals are ‘very bad places’ for elderly people, according to the head of the NHS. Sir David Nicholson said they were not the right place to care for ‘old, frail people’, and called for community care to be expanded to … Continue reading
Labour calls on government not to ‘let the tax avoiders into the NHS‘ after revelations in review by Monitor Private companies providing NHS services could be exempt from paying corporation tax on their profits under proposals being considered by a … Continue reading
Around 94% of hospital beds were occupied last month, well above the 85% limit that doctors regard as necessary to maintain safe, good quality care, government figures reveal. The statistics, which show that many hospitals had only a handful of … Continue reading
The UK’s first privately run NHS hospital generated a deficit more than twice as high than planned, it emerged today. Circle, the company in charge of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust in Cambridgeshire, had projected that the Trust would be in … Continue reading
Bloody typical of our country, a qualified English Nurse who speaks and reads and writes in English perfectly has to undergo an English Test whilst we have Nurses already here who cannot speak English decently, how many of … Continue reading
The amount of money that people will have to pay towards the cost of their care in old age could still be capped at £35,000 after an apparent U-turn by the coalition government. The Dilnot Commission on funding of care … Continue reading
A 24-hour patient helpline being trialled by the Department of Health to replace NHS Direct has led to more ambulance callouts and potentially lowered the standard of care for children, doctors claim. Although some private sector firms have refused to … Continue reading
The official assessment of the risks involved in the government’s NHS shakeup will never be published after the cabinet exercised its rare right of veto to keep it secret. The move ends a 19-month campaign by the Labour MP John … Continue reading