Mum Lucy Chillery-Watson said she had to google physiotherapy to help her daughter suffering from muscular dystrophy after her NHS-funded physio sessions were stopped. Virgin Care took over the NHS … Read more
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Mental health services for children and young people will fall well short of meeting a growing demand for help, despite pledges by ministers to increase funding, a report by Whitehall’s … Read more
NHS hospital trusts have been told to stop setting up private companies and transferring staff into them, a move that has provoked strong criticism from health unions and Labour. NHS … Read more
Full story in BBC News: 11 September 2018 The shortage of NHS staff in England has started worsening again, official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant with the … Read more
Research by the Labour Party has found that almost half of maternity units at hospitals in England were closed to expectant mothers at least once during 2017. The party say … Read more
Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across England are looking at (or already have) set up private companies in which to transfer swathes of vital NHS staff and assets. The moves … Read more