World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to health workers across the sector about the crisis they face on the front line.
A survey of its members by the Royal College of Nursing union found that two-thirds had daily delivered care in what they considered an “inappropriate setting”.
Proposals require more 999 callers to dole out phone advice instead of dispatching paramedics in bid to tackle A&E crisis ...
A proposal for a national social work agency to provide a national standard for that area of care is also expected to pass.
Read about delays to the New Hospital Programme, as unveiled by secretary of state for health and social care Wes Streeting.
The results of a nurses’ survey show that patients are routinely receiving care in hospital corridors and waiting areas. The ...
The first minister says a number of steps have been taken in recent weeks and months to strengthen social care. He cites the expansion of the hospitals at home system, aimed at caring for people in ...
Government must ‘go for broke’ to improve services outside hospitals if health service to survive, Sir Stephen Powis says ...
Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the SNP Government failure on NCS is symbolic of their inability to deliver public ...
The UK's National Health Service Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has announced a £500m ($514m) framework agreement to assist the country's public sector organisations, including the NHS itself, in ...