Following new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s emergency statement on the public finances, the British Dental Association has warned any further cuts risk destroying any prospect of saving NHS dentistry in England. In an open letter to the new Chancellor, the professional body has stressed that without meaningful investment a reform process looks doomed from the outset, […]
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NHS Dentistry: new figures show service on its last legs: The British Dental Association says the latest damning data on NHS dentistry in England underlines the need for radical and urgent change. Just a third of adults (34%) accessed NHS dental care in the 24 months to 31 March, with children seen in the last year […]
“NHS England‘s crisis mitigation plan can only succeed if there is political will to tackle the crisis….” RCEM says Responding to NHS England’s letter ‘Next steps in increasing capacity and operational resilience in urgent and emergency care ahead of winter’, Dr Adrian Boyle, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “We are […]
Record number of patients delayed by 12 hours or more as Urgent and Emergency Care faces deepening crisis: The latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for January 2022 show: There were 1,246,817 attendances at major Emergency Departments 16,558 patients were delayed for 12 hours or more from decision to admit to admission This is the […]
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Emergency call handlers are at the forefront of dealing with crisis situations, and the stress they experience negatively impacts on their long term psychological wellbeing, according to a new report in the journal PeerJ. During this innovative study, researchers from the University of Surrey, University of Dundee, Anglia Ruskin University and Kingston University/St George’s, University […]