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NHS@75 SECURING ITS FUTURE
The Lowdown has, for some time, been asking questions about how plans to make savings have affected staff and services during 2025/6.…
The government has consistently pledged to “hold the door wide open” to private providers, to help tackle the waiting lists,…
The NHS Alliance whose report has revealed the threat of brutal cuts to come in the current financial year (2026/27)…
The Lowdown has, for some time, been asking questions about how plans to make savings have affected staff and services during 2025/6.…
Thanks to observant local readers of Lowdown in Protect Our NHS Bath and North East Somerset for drawing our attention…
The Lowdown has been working hard in the last year or so to find evidence of what services have been…
Consultant psychiatrists are being pushed to ‘breaking point’ by unmanageable workloads, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, whose latest…
A long and dogged campaign by Keep Our NHS Public North East demanding information on the state of outsourced sexual…
Last month, over 150,000 patients, almost one in three (30.4%) of those requiring emergency admission in England’s hospitals, had waited…
NHS England has asked for nearly 300 patients to be moved from a mental health hospital run by St Andrew’s…
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