For years, governments have failed to meet targets to recruit enough GPs, but now trained doctors are struggling to find…
A newly unveiled NHS Blueprint signals a significant organisational shake-up aimed at reducing operating costs and restructuring functions within local health systems…
More than two months on from the government’s announcement in the spring statement that they would continue with and intensify…
In running hospitals, NHS Trusts pay VAT on goods and services but cannot claim any VAT back. This has always…
The Lowdown has heard that some health workers are being warned to brace themselves for “radical” proposals in the government’s…
The decision by Bath and NE Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to award a contract for the…
According to headline figures from a report by private health market analysts LaingBuisson, the private medical insurance (PMI) business is booming.…
The Trump agenda is not all about gagging scientists and people fighting against inequality: the aim is to minimise state…
Wes Streeting may have sneaked out his announcement during Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20, hoping attention would be…
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