Category Archives: News

The future provider landscape: are foundation trusts taking us down a dead end? – King’s Fund Blog Post

Blog post that identifies the question mark that now hangs over the ambition for all trusts to become foundation trusts, originally set to be achieved by 2008. In 2010, the coalition government’s White Paper set a new deadline for all NHS trusts (relaxed during the passage of the Bill to ‘the vast majority’ of trusts) to become foundation trusts by April 2014). Yet 40 per cent of NHS providers are still not foundation trusts, a position that has hardly shifted from three years ago when the figure was 45 per cent.

Running On Empty: NHS Staff Stretched To The Limit – Unison

Highlights research that demonstrates the clear link between appropriate patient staff ratios and patient mortality and details results of a survey of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK highlights the pressures staffing levels in the NHS. The survey reveals that 65% of staff said that they did not have enough time with patients and 55% reporting that as a result care was left undone.