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Vacancy: Head of Programmes

As our charity grows and the importance of our work increases, we are investing in some key appointments and are now recruiting for a Head of Programmes
Majority of public back using NHS cash to cut elective care waiting times

New polling has found that the majority of the public want additional NHS funding to be used to help cut high waiting lists for elective treatment.
“A Budget that tells patients nothing”

The Patients Association issues its response to the Chancellor's 2018 Budget
The Anaesthetist – by your side when it matters

information about anaesthesia and how doctors working in the specialty care for patients across the country

‘Evidence based interventions’ – good housekeeping, or barriers to treatment?

NHS England has put forward plans to limit the use of some interventions – often surgery – that it considers poor value for money, ineffective, or even in one or two cases unsafe. As with earlier guidelines, while we acknowledge the need to ensure NHS funds are spent wisely, we are concerned that the end result will be to shut some patients off from treatments that would be beneficial.
Analysis of the Prime Minister's NHS funding announcement

What the Prime Minister's funding announcement is likely to mean for the NHS, and for patients.
Why your care is so important

If we don’t talk about the standards of care we receive, then no-one will ever know and nothing can ever change.