Sentence examples for overstretched services from inspiring English sources

At the same time, rising homelessness, welfare cuts and greatly reduced substance abuse services are putting more pressure on already overstretched services.

It was Lansley, too, who stalled hospital restructuring in a pre-election pledge which hasn't changed much and also binned super-surgeon Lord Darzi's plans to innovate creatively in London's overstretched services.

Thousands of people in their 60s and 70s today could be left to cope on their own when they need care in the future, with overstretched services unable to make up the shortfall.

Other already overstretched services, such as GP out-of-hours providers, have had to step in and undertake the workload that was supposed to be dealt with by NHS 111".

Overstretched services are no longer able to keep up with rising demand: patients face longer waits to see their GPs, who are now conducting 40 million more consultations a year than in 2008; A&E waiting times are some of the worst they've been in a decade; waiting lists are at a recent high with millions of people waiting for treatment in hospital.

Indeed, polls suggest that many voters are anxious about high levels of immigration, and the pressure that incomers bring to congested cities and overstretched services.

The effects of the new contract will only go to stretch an already overstretched service.

This influx will peak in 2012 and is likely to result in increased supervisory demands in the context of an already overstretched service.

After all, as she kept telling us, nobody else was helping them; not overstretched social services, not conventional mental health services with their long waiting lists.

Women undervalue both breast feeding and their own needs compared with the needs of others as a reason to ask for help in the context of overstretched maternity services.

These figures reflect the perilous state of affairs in overstretched acute services".