Day: April 8, 2025

UK News: Hospital waiting lists among worst in UK and children with special needs waiting a year for support, report finds

Northern Ireland’s public services, including hospitals, schools and police, are being “crippled” by lack of funding, impinging on the quality of life for many people, a report by a government committee has concluded.

The Northern Ireland select committee found patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen in accident and emergency departments and mental health needs 40% greater than anywhere else in the UK. Hospital waiting lists are among the worst in the country. Continue reading…
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Community-based approach in England has had good results so far in cutting urgent demand for GPs and A&E

The NHS is attempting to ease the pressure on GPs and A&E by sending a new type of health worker door to door in deprived areas to help detect illnesses before people need urgent care.

Community health and wellbeing workers (CHWW) are already deployed in 12 areas of England, with 13 others to follow, in an attempt to improve poor and vulnerable people’s access to care.

82% more likely to attend a cancer screening.

47% more likely to get vaccinated against major diseases.

82% more likely to undergo an NHS health check. Continue reading…
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Exclusive: Scale of looming job losses prompts NHS leaders to ask Treasury to cover costs

Hospitals in England could axe more than 100,000 jobs as a result of the huge reorganisation and brutal cost-cutting ordered by Wes Streeting and the NHS’s new boss.

The scale of looming job losses is so large that NHS leaders have urged the Treasury to cover the costs involved, which they say could top £2bn, because they do not have the money. Continue reading…
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