More than 1.1 million people have signed a British Medical Association petition calling on the government to halt the development of polyclinics.
Laurence Buckman, chair of the BMA's GP committee, will deliver the Support Your Surgery petition to 10 Downing Street this afternoon, along with a giant birthday card celebrating the NHS's 60th anniversary.
For more details, visit www.bma.org.uk
A new one-hour target for sepsis, set out in NHS England’s standards review this month, could encourage “bad clinical practice to beat the clock”, a senior clinical leader has cautioned.
Nearly one in five clinical commissioning groups are restricting access to at least three basic elective surgeries and treatments, according to researchers.
Trusts are not doing enough to review and learn from the deaths of their patients, a report from the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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