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BMA warns cuts to jobs and services: A survey by the BMA has found the care on the NHS is already being affected by redundancies, recruitment freezes and service cutbacks, despite the government’s pledge to protect frontline healthcare from severe curbs on spending. The Daily Telegraph mentions that the RCN said earlier this year that 5,600 jobs were under threat across 26 hospital trusts. Nadine Dorries, member of the Commons health select committee said that health funding should not be ring-fenced.
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Nursing trainees face cuts: The Sunday Mirror reports that nearly 1,400 nurse training posts are being axed to cut costs. Six per cent fewer nurses will be trained this year than in 2009 - even though 180,000 NHS nurses - one in four - are due to retire in the next 10 years. The Royal College of Nursing is quoted as saying "It is very simple - patient care will suffer in the long term if we do not train enough nurses now.
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Report by Reform on tackling the budget deficit: Patients should be charged £10 for every GP appointment saving the NHS £1.6 billion by 2014, according to a report, entitled ‘Budget 2010, Taking Choices’ published by think-tank Reform. They also suggest cutting 32,000 hospital beds and cutting 250,000 staff to save more than £20 billion from the health budget.
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Disparity in NHS death rates: According to an investigation by The Guardian doctors in the NHS do not know how well they are performing and whether they are more likely than their colleagues to kill or cure their patients, because of a widespread failure to collect the information. The results of a major exercise looking at one particular procedure – vascular surgery- show a massive variation in death among patients admitted for planned operations and reveal that some hospitals have unacceptable high mortality.
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Andrew Lansley speech on NHS reforms: Following on from yesterday’s story on Andrew Lansley speech on NHS reforms, The Daily Mail reports that Andrew Lansley said nurses are being forced to spend the bulk of their time completing paperwork and filling in forms, limiting the time they can spend with patients. The article says that the RCN has repeatedly warned that nurses are being bogged down by the weight of administrative duties. Andrew Lansley speech is widely reported in all the newspapers with each covering different aspects of his speech. The Financial Times looks at the issue that hospitals will no longer be paid when patients are readmitted as emergencies within 30 days of discharge. The Daily Mail looks at how hospitals are to be ordered to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to tackling superbugs. A comment piece in The Daily Telegraph criticises the government for shying away from tackling what it believes is the fundamental problem facing the NHS – its monolithic, inflexible structure. Dr Peter Carter also took part in interviews with BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Sport Radio.
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