Abolishing NHS England sounds like a tidy fix. But the legal changes buried in the health bill could make the NHS more vulnerable than ever.
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The NHS modernisation bill promises reform, but past reorganisations suggest costly upheaval may distract from fixing care where it matters most.
Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.
The UK government is set to bring the NHS back under direct political control.
Starmer’s plan to abolish NHS England aligns the health system with more centralised government control.
Ministerial control replaces NHS England as government seeks to cut duplication.
The government has announced three major reform priorities for the NHS. If successfully implemented, they could start to transform the health service.
The NHS, like many other health systems, is still dealing with the effects of COVID-19 but the challenges it faces predate the pandemic.
Here’s what happened behind the scenes to increase intensive care capacity at the height of the pandemic.
The NHS’s plan to offer genome sequencing to the general public, for a fee, raises many important questions.
Case management systems used by GPs are supposed to help those at risk.
Excess winter deaths could be tackled by improving housing.
The NHS funding formula is based on an unfair premise which is funnelling money away from the regions that need it most.
It turns out you can’t ensure cyber-security in the world’s fifth-largest employer if there’s no one in charge of making it happen.
Why do a higher proportion of children in England end up on wards after being checked into emergency departments?
The double-whammy of Brexit and the withdrawal of healthcare-student bursaries will cause massive shortfalls in NHS staff.
Genomes can reveal a lot about disease risk. But people need to think carefully about what they want to know.
More people will go into nursing after bursaries are scrapped, but fewer than the NHS needs.
Heavy clouds are on the horizon for NHS England – and older people will suffer the worst in this downpour.
While politicians and doctors argue over the data on the weekend effect, it’s important to remember that there are other ways to reduce hospital deaths.
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