The call to shift services out of hospitals and build new centres in the community is not new: it dates…
The press releases and planning guidance from the government on establishing Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) make it seem that the…
Andy Burnham has made it clear in his first couple of weeks in office that his main focus is not…
John Lister looks at the concrete proposals in Labour’s 10-year Capital Plan for the NHS After two years’ consideration, the…
Without announcing any details, the new Prime Minister has made his opposition to privatisation plain. And yet he arrives at Downing Street to find a Labour health plan, which, according to a LowdownNHS analysis, has eight of 20 headline commitments that depend on private companies to deliver them. We looked at 20 headline policy commitments
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As Wes Streeting enters the murky waters of a leadership challenge, he jumps ship as the NHS heads turn towards…
Wes Streeting’s widely-expected letter of resignation to Keir Starmer begins with a predictable ritual breast-beating on the achievements during his…
There are a few problems with Labour’s plan for a new network of “Neighbourhood Health Centres” (NHCs), which were the main new…
Government claims last December that they were on track to save a colossal £17 billion from NHS “efficiencies” over the…
Last month, over 150,000 patients, almost one in three (30.4%) of those requiring emergency admission in England’s hospitals, had waited…