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From the Bureau Editor
Wednesday April 17
New Health Foundation research suggests that nearly four million English workers will have a major disease by 2040, Chief Nursing Officer, Dame Ruth May announces her retirement and, while the New Hospitals Programme can't recruit enough people, trusts are drawing up redundancies in order to hit 24/25 financial targets.
Angus Wrixon
Editor
the briefing
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NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / £ / Covid inquiry
End-of-life case parents call for naming of doctors - Parents who claim they were "gagged" in legal proceedings about their dying children have gathered at the Supreme Court, as justices consider allowing the naming of doctors involved in two end-of-life cases BBC
Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community
BMA calls for a‘pause’ to the planned expansion of physician associates and to adopt the union’s scope of practice nationally Pulse
Public health
3.7m workers in England will have major illness by 2040 - Guardian and from Health Foundation research
Who’s eligible for the 2024 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’? UK HSA
Workforce
Many hospitals are launching redundancy schemes or plans to freeze recruitment for corporate and non-clinical staff, in a bid to meet their financial expectations in 2024–25 HSJ
CNO, Dame Ruth May to retire HSJ
New Hospital Programme admits 50% vacancy rate amid recruitment problems HSJ
what the bloggers are blogging
NEW! Jammed 999 lines and not enough ambulances to go round: come see the sharp end of this NHS crisis Polly Toynbee
NEW! The Observer view on the Cass review: children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession
NEW! Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS? Guardian readers weigh up Labour’s plans to use the private health sector to reduce the NHS backlog
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2023 - Results of the British Social Attitudes survey The Kings Fund
Health care funding - Three key questions about funding in England Health Foundation
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