The NHS Needs Emergency Funding Now!

12 October 2015 — 38 Degrees

It’s official: unless £2bn is urgently given to struggling hospitals, A&E waiting times will go up, cancer treatment will be delayed, and it’ll be impossible for hospitals to provide beds for people in need this winter. [1]

NHS experts say they’ve exhausted their options for saving money in hospitals, and now Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s cuts are putting patients’ lives in danger. [2]
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The NHS winter is coming – what’s the one thing all progressive politicians must do to save it? By Caroline Molloy

9 October 2015 — ourNHS

The NHS winter is coming – what’s the one thing all progressive politicians must do to save it? By Caroline Molloy

Don’t let politicians leave the NHS out in the cold. 

All week we’ve been waiting for the figures that would show just how bad the scale of the NHS financial crisis was.

The regulator, Monitor, had been ‘leaned on’ to delay publication til after the Tory Party Conference.

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