NHS

City

Is the Bristol mental health sector healthy?

Mental wellbeing is finally getting recognised as being as important as physical health. Squeezed budgets mean progress isn’t easy, but there are positive steps being taken in Bristol.

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

Investigations

The NHS is in ‘a desperate state’, can it be saved?

This long-read on the NHS looks at how our local NHS services are doing, and the latest news on the the ‘plan’ to save the...

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

City

No more National Health Service

Sustainability and transformation plans are the Department of Health’s latest scheme to try to prevent the NHS slamming into the brick wall it’s accelerating towards. But are they going to work?

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

Bristol and Beyond

The NHS is on its knees

Our health service is in crisis, but what’s causing it? With such a colossal organisation there is no single answer, just death by a thousand cuts...

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

City

Homeopathy: public money well spent?

Molly Asher asks why Bristol is one of the last places that homeopathy is still NHS funded, despite the practice being scientifically debunked.

Molly Asher

Ideas and Action

Mental health crisis line to close – oh, wait…

Questions raised about alternative provision and better signposting as Bristol CCG and Bristol Mental Health announce closure, then appear to U-turn.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

Carillion’s Southmead secrets

The latest on a long-running Freedom of Information Act battle, to try and work out how Southmead hospital will end up costing over a billion pounds. 

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

City

Carry on doctors

One big strike, sit-down protests, public marches and pickets – the junior doctors aren’t going down without a fight.

Lucas Batt
Lucas Batt

Bristol and Beyond

NHS in Bristol propose controversial rule change for contracts

Clinical Commissioning Group claims just a “minor change” despite protests

Chris Miller

City

Feeling undervalued, unheard – but determined. Talking to doctors on Bristol’s pickets today.

Today junior doctors in Bristol joined thousands of their colleagues across England in striking against the proposed changes to their contracts by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The Bristol Cable joined one of the pickets.....

Dean Ayotte
Dean Ayotte

Edition 5

Help! Help! To Southmead Hospital (via Guernsey)

Bristol is home to one of the largest Private Finance Initiative hospitals in the country. But what is PFI? How does it work? And how can we find out more?

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan

City

Healthcare at risk: the flight of junior doctors

Wider consequences about new contract reform outplay risks of strike says Bristol based junior doctor

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens
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