Hospital discharge funding: why the frosty reception to new money? The latest announcement of an additional £200m to speed up hospital discharge into social care services means that in a matter of months the government has committed a total of £750m to free up beds in beleaguered acute hospitals throughout England. That’s a weighty sum, yet the response from many social care leaders and health professionals has been decidedly mixed, if not hostile. When social care is desperate for resources and hospitals are desperate for beds, why the negativity? The Health Foundation
Brexit, Covid and the UK’s reliance on international recruitment Our recent report considered the impact of Brexit on health across three major areas, including staffing. In this guest blog, Professor James Buchan focuses on the largest health professional labour market, which is nurses, and argues that the UK must get smarter and safer in how it uses international recruitment. Nuffield Trust
Two in three Britons say NHS services are ‘bad’ Two in three voters have described NHS services as “bad”, according to a new poll revealing that Britons appear to be losing faith in the health service.
Some 67 per cent of people say NHS services were bad and only 22 per cent say they are good, according to the YouGov survey – which also found 78 per cent think the health service if currently operating “badly”. The Independent
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Record levels of NHS staff resign as nurses say they are ‘broken’ A record number of NHS staff have quit as better pay and work-life balance drive health workers out, new data has revealed.
Nurses have said they are “truly broken” as 42,400 staff voluntarily quit their NHS jobs in quarter two of last year – higher than any quarter over the last decade. The Independent
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