Key points Pressure has been applied on NHS leaders to submit “unrealistic“ plans in order to publish balanced budgets.…
The key issue in expanding NHS capacity is staff, and the need for a long-term workforce strategy. Without significant investment,…
New study concludes: No shared understanding of what integration means Pilots achieved “only mixed results” and made little progress on…
As the Health and Care Bill proceeds through the Committee stage, belated critiques and assessments have begun to appear flagging…
The victory of Tony Blair’s New Labour government in 1997 came at a time of huge and growing waiting lists…
30 years of marketisation The government’s new White Paper setting out plans for a new top-down centralising “reform” of the…
Key arguments in brief The NHS is open to all patients, whereas private companies will restrict access to protect profits and abandon…
John Lister comments – Senior NHS managers have been working out what they want to see as the next steps…
Community care and the birth of the internal market Today’s discussions on the crisis in social care – the heavily…
Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public report The number of private companies that run parts of the NHS in Oxfordshire is…