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16 October 2014

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust runs King's Mill Hospital, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Newark Hospital

A troubled NHS trust is spending £3.56m a month - 16% of its budget - on a private finance initiative (PFI) project, documents have revealed. Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, which runs two hospitals in Nottinghamshire, is in special measures because of higher-than-expected death rates.

13 April 2015

The Royal College of Nursing has warned the next government must take ‘immediate action’ to increase the number of nurses in the NHS or risk falling standards of care.

Unison member said tired staff have 'detrimental effect on patient care'Jane Smith likened longer working hours for NHS staff to 'slave labour'Called for more research to examine the impact on workers' health 

17 April 2015

Nurses forced to work 12-hour shifts amid staff shortages are treated like 'slave labour', a union has claimed.With a growing demand for nurses to work long hours, Unison has called for more research into the effects of workers' health.At the union's healthcare conference in Liverpool this week, one member highlighted how staff at a hospital in Staffordshire are expected to work six long days a week, totalling up to 78 hours a week.Jane Smith told colleagues: 'The fact staff are so tired has a detrimental effect on patient care and (also) puts other staff at risk.'

BMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6639 (Published 07 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6639

Michael McCarthy

Many primary care doctors in the United States, the United Kingdom, and eight other rich countries think that their practices are not prepared enough to manage patients with multiple chronic conditions, a new survey by the US based non-profit think tank the Commonwealth Foundation has found.1The doctors also said that they found it difficult to coordinate care with other providers of health and social care and expressed dissatisfaction with the practice of medicine.

April 12, 2016

As the debate on the EU referendum continues to heat up, the future of the NHS has unsurprisingly emerged as one of the key battlegrounds.