"A truly resilient NHS will not be built by short term decisions that take us from now to the next general election. Patching, propping and stop gap measures are not lasting solutions" says @Saffron_Policy opening #NHSP22
"Money is tight with inflation on track to wipe out at least £7 billion pounds from next year's NHS budget. To say there is no slack in the system would be a gross understatement" - @Saffron_Policy#NHSP22
"A £1 billion pound reduction in funding for frontline services could mean around 700,000 fewer planned operations and procedures for patients next year" - @Saffron_Policy#NHSP22
"Nurses are skipping meals to feed their children. Staff are struggling to make the journey to work. It's getting harder to recruit and retain staff to low paid roles" - @Saffron_Policy#NHSP22
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.@wesstreeting says Labour will work with NHS managers to deal with the biggest crisis in the NHS history. He says many of the problems have been created by government failures. #nhsp22
There is no future for the NHS that involves pouring ever larger amounts of money into a 20th century care model, says @wesstreeting adding: "We don't focus enough on prevention, early intervention and social care. The case for change is unarguable." #nhsp22
.@wesstreeting says Labour will launch major reforms of NHS when in Govt (shudders) with a 10year plan. This will include doubling the number of district nurses qualifying he says. #nhsp22
Exclusive: New hope for childhood cancer patients as the first baby is born in England thanks to a pioneering NHS service, run on the goodwill of staff without any funding: thetimes.co.uk/article/new-ho…
England's paediatric fertility preservation service, run out of Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, uses a process to freeze tissue samples from boys and girls that can be used years later to help them become parents: thetimes.co.uk/article/4f9a3e…
Sienna was born in April this year - her mum Shana was helped by the Oxford servicee after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2018. A week later she had surgery to preserve tissue - her surgeon walked 3 miles through snow to get to hospital: thetimes.co.uk/article/4f9a3e…
🚨 NEW: Ambulance took more than 30 mins to reach dying baby - 8 mins to answer the 999 call. From next week, 2 NHS ambulance trusts plan to downgrade some emergency calls as crisis deepens: thetimes.co.uk/article/541319…
Wyllow-Raine was born at 39 weeks & discharged from @OUHospitals on 29 Sept. Just 8 hrs later she stopped breathing & her family had to do CPR while they waited 31m and 10s for help to arrive.
“I’m angry and I want answers. I am not going to go away" - says her grandmother
Across England, thousands of people have been harmed because paramedics have been delayed handing over patients to overcrowded A&E departments. This month, @OFFICIALWMAS saw the worst ambulance delay yet recorded — at 29 hours and 51 minutes thetimes.co.uk/article/541319…
The Sunday Times tried to answer why Britain lags so many other countries on cancer survival. In brief British people are slower to come forward; GPs act as gatekeepers to hold back demand; because the NHS lacks diagnostic & treatment capacity & staff to cope with said demand:
While @AmandaPritchard told me the NHS had now "completely caught up" with the lost cancer referrals from Covid - the service is facing an uphill struggle to treat them:
BREAKING: The report into poor maternity care at #EastKent has been published and says it found a clear pattern of poor care leading to 45 baby deaths. Better care could have made a difference in 97 cases examined.
"We have found that the Trust wrongly took comfort from the fact that the great majority of
births in East Kent ended with no damage to either mother or baby"
How often is that the stock phrase by NHS trusts in response to concerns? #EastKent
"The origins of the harm we have identified...lie in failures of teamworking, professionalism, compassion and listening" #EastKent