St Thomas Hospital looms large for politicians

This page attempts to collect information relevant to hospital organisation, closures and reconfigurations. The SHA does not in general either support or oppose campaigns to preserve hospitals, but we do try to encourage informed debate. Material about Foundation Hospitals, is on a separate page. There is also a page about NHS Reform.

• COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” March 29, 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 March 23, 2020
• OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION March 20, 2020
• New post on Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital February 8, 2020
• Frimley NHS trust staff to strike for three more days over hived-off ‘tax avoiding’ company December 5, 2019
• Are hospitals safe places to be in? May 16, 2018
• Tory promises may well mean less for Southport Hospital August 29, 2017
• Hospital deficits are skewing NHS priorities March 2, 2016
• Hospital Porters December 12, 2015
• Does a Spoonful of Sugar Help the Medicine Go Down? September 3, 2014
• Bed Occupancy: Trusts Operating at Dangerous Levels February 10, 2014
• Ten Years After – NHS Foundation Trusts January 25, 2014
• A New Threat to CCGs, Hospitals and Accountability November 30, 2013
• Market Madness and Hospitals November 1, 2013
• A week in parliament or a challenge to a weak Parliament? November 1, 2013
• Hospital beds September 29, 2013
• What can HS2 teach the NHS? September 18, 2013
• Lewishambles and Stafford and the Barricades August 29, 2013
• Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign Goes to Court July 13, 2013
• Reconfiguration – Closing Services June 8, 2013
• News from Wales March 2013 March 23, 2013
• New Investigation into “Shameside” announced February 12, 2013
• Lewisham Hospital – Top Down Reorganisation You Can See From Space February 3, 2013
• Labour is the party for our NHS January 23, 2013
• Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign December 10, 2012
• Saving Lewisham Hospital December 9, 2012
• South London Healthcare Trust – More of the Same November 4, 2012
• The Friends of the Hospital September 26, 1952

Dr Richard Taylor MP outside Kidderminster Hospital

• A&E Closures 2012
• Alan Milburn speech May 2002
• Darzi in 10 minutes Prof Richard Hobbs
• Doublespeak of the Darzi review
• England’s First State Hospitals
• • Final Report Of The Independent Inquiry Into Care Provided By Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
• The Friends of the Hospital 1952
• The Future Hospital: The progressive case for change Jan 2007
• The Future Hospital: The politics of change May 2007
• Future of the Hospital 2011
• Going for a (virtual Hospital)
• Happiness in the Hospital Iris Brook 1937
• Henry Ford of Heart Surgery
• Hospital Episode Statistics
• Hospital governance and community involvement in Britain: evidence from before the National Health Service
• Hospital Management in Peace and War Somerville Hastings 1944
• Hospital Trusts (alphabetical list)
• Hospitals in the Wrong Places Charles Brook 1946
• Independent Reconfiguration Panel
• Isolated acute medical services: Report by the Royal College of Physicians June 2002
• The Invention of the Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kidderminster Health Concern
• Labour Reform Conference on Foundation Hospitals September 2003
• More hospitals need to close, says ex-NHS boss 2011
• Now For Health section on hospitals 1946
• Patient Opinion
• Patients need safe care 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Premier Inc
• Queueing for beds, Andrei Andreevich Markov, and why I still love the NHS
• Strengthening Local Services: The Future of the Local Hospital 2006
• The Case for Hospital Reconfiguration – not proven October 2007
• UK lacks world-class hospitals, says regulator 2010
• Why we need fewer hospital beds NHS Confederation 2006

Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor – archetypal nurses

The review of Carry On Nurse asserts: “Haven Hospital is ruled with an iron fist by Matron, and tied up with more red tape than the civil service.”

See also our separate page on the Privatisation debate