A £3 million sticking plaster is just a fraction of what is required to solve Fife’s bed blocking crisis, according to the council leader. The local authority went with a begging bowl to the Scottish Government to fund an urgent action plan to help prevent elderly patients staying in hospital longer than necessary as they … [Read more…]
Upon finding that the UK Statistics Authority was able to demonstrate how the government could claim GP numbers had risen since it took office, while Labour could insist they had fallen. The National Association of Sessional GPs believes all of these figures are futile because they exclude locums. This is a point that remains unaddressed … [Read more…]
According to a report by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Britain has fewer doctors per head than almost every other European country with only Poland, Romania, Ireland and Slovenia being worse. Senior doctors have described the shortages in Britain as life threatening and as leaving the NHS under ‘incredible pressure’. The report … [Read more…]
Expert looks to technology and changing healthcare models to cater for growing population Prominent medic Joshua Liu, MD has stated that hiring more doctors is not the solution for the American doctor shortage, and that instead, closer focus should be on how healthcare is going to evolve over the coming years. Writing for The Health … [Read more…]
Acute NHS providers fall short on registered nursing levels More than three quarters of acute NHS trusts have missed their own targets for the number of hours worked by registered nurses at their hospitals. Of 139 trusts, 105 failed to meet targets for the total nursing hours worked during both the day and night on … [Read more…]
Six out of 10 doctors taking early retirement to escape heavy workloads The British Medical Association has warned that general practice is hitting ‘crisis point’, with a boom in retiring doctors yet a lack of new doctors training as GP’s. With a serious drop in applicants, the number of training places are not expanding fast enough, … [Read more…]