Labour will recruit 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs and 5,000 more home-care workers to tackle the Tory A&E crisis. These extra staff will be fully funded by a Mansion Tax on properties worth over £2 million, a clamp-down on tax avoidance and a levy on tobacco firms. New NHS figures show that over 23,000 patients have waited over four hours in A&E at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital since the Tories came into Government in 2010. The Tories have caused…
These figures reveal a worrying slump in A&E performance in the last 12 months and lay bare the scale of the crisis the NHS is facing. Under David Cameron, A&Es across England are operating at their very limits and too many have clearly gone beyond them. Across England, more than 30,000 patients each week now wait too long to be seen in local A&E departments – an increase of more than 50 per cent on the same period last year….
In January this year, there were 8 days when there were no free beds in Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust hospitals, covering Wiltshire, new figures show. In January this year, there were 8 days when there were no free beds in Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust hospitals, covering Wiltshire, new figures show. Anne Snelgrove: Ministers must act and ensure all hospitals have enough beds and staff to cope. This is part of a national picture where 1 in 3 hospitals…
GWH is one of the 20 trusts across the south west who have joined together as the South West Consortium which is looking at making changes to the pay, terms and conditions of health workers in the region.
He said he could be trusted with our NHS. He said there’d be no top down reorganisation. He said he would protect the frontline at all costs. He toured hospitals making these promises, and repeated them over and over again. He said he could be trusted with our NHS. He said there’d be no top down reorganisation. He said he would protect the frontline at all costs. He toured hospitals making these promises, and repeated them over and over again….