“A workforce plan without numbers is not a plan but a daydream”, RCEM president says Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for February 2023, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “The latest data show emergency care remains in crisis. Patients continue to face […]
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Dentists call for deeds not words, as Tory leadership candidates pledge to fix dental crisis. The British Dental Association has stressed that the next PM must commit to urgent reform in NHS dentistry, following commitments from both campaigns to prioritise action on the crisis. Rishi Sunak has today committed to “restore” NHS dentistry by ringfencing […]
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“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 […]
The British Dental Association has said government must press ahead on fundamental reform of NHS dentistry, following plans announced today that will do little to arrest the exodus of dentists from the service, or address the crisis in patient access. The current target-based system funds care for little over half the population and sets perverse […]
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NHS dentists blast orders to return to virtually ‘business as usual’: The British Dental Association has slammed moves by government to effectively return to normal working arrangements for NHS dentists in England. The move comes with no meaningful changes to the pandemic restrictions dental teams work to and with infection rates now at an all-time […]
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The latest Emergency Department performance figures for September 2021 published today by NHS England show the highest number of 12-hour stays on record, the highest number of four-hour stays on record, and the worst four-hour performance ever recorded. The data show in September 2021 there were 1,392,542 attendances to Type 1 Emergency Departments in England. […]
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RCEM welcomes NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery 10 Point Action Plan: Commenting on the publication of the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Recovery 10 Point Action Plan by NHS England yesterday, Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “We welcome this 10-point action plan published by NHS England. The […]
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Responding to the latest set of performance figures released by NHS England for July 2021, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, said: “The NHS has been running hot for months now and these figures show we are nearly at boiling point. “We are worried that the public think that things […]
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Unprecedented demand as NHS restarts school age vaccinations programme: The NHS has reported unprecedented demand since it restarted its vaccination programme in the East of England to protect year-eight and year-nine school children against infection and disease. As schools were closed in late March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many secondary students were unable to receive […]
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Men in England & Wales miss out on abiraterone as first-line treatment for advanced prostate cancer: The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has expressed disappointment at the decision by NICE not to recommend abiraterone as a first-line treatment on the NHS for newly diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer. The decision puts the NHS in England and Wales out […]
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