Miriam Deakin

Sep 19, 2023 | bmj.com | Miriam Deakin |NHS Providers

Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategyNHS ProvidersWinter is always a busy and challenging time for the NHS. Last winter was the toughest on record. Trust leaders and staff need time to plan and prepare for the extra demand and pressure, including from flu cases, which winter brings. And covid-19 hasn’t gone away. Yet instead they are having to spend too much time dealing with another pressure point—strikes.

Jul 23, 2023 | inkl.com | Miriam Deakin |NHS Providers

But the biggest obstacle to the speedy discharge of patients is lack of beds in other settings, such as care homes or community hospitals, which health chiefs have dubbed a “capacity crunch” that needs “appropriate funding”. It is the first time figures have been published that break down the reasons for discharge delays.

Jun 19, 2023 | inkl.com | Miriam Deakin |NHS Providers

Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, said: “Now 651,232 routine operations and appointments have had to be rescheduled due to industrial action across England since December, right across already overstretched hospital, ambulance, mental health and community services. “Strikes cannot become ‘business as usual’ for trusts and patients.

May 5, 2023 | inkl.com | Nuffield Trust |Natasha Curry |Miriam Deakin |NHS Providers

The Nuffield Trust said the pandemic had shown up the “underlying fragilities” in the social care system and “forced this issue to a point where it is impossible to ignore”, as it insisted there is a “huge amount of learning” that must be understood and harnessed. But, in a report published on Friday, it noted that, since beginning its research which focused on the first four months of the pandemic response to May 2020, some key elements of the plan for sector reform have been delayed.