A major loss of local accountability and control, coupled with a massive expansion of centralised powers, and the danger of…
In his resignation letter to prime minister Boris Johnson last week, former health secretary Matt Hancock said he was “so…
New research from Canada has confirmed the point campaigners have been making for decades: that prescription charges deter or prevent…
Evidence that increasing social inequality in the past decade has resulted in growing inequalities in health keeps coming: but so…
The most damning element of Dominic Cummings’ mesmerising seven-hour testimony before a parliamentary select committee this week – and probably…
Let down again, charities and campaigners representing 850,000 dementia patients were united in their criticism of the government this week…
The victory of Tony Blair’s New Labour government in 1997 came at a time of huge and growing waiting lists…
The 2021 Queen’s Speech lacks any details of the proposed ‘Health and Care Bill,’ which we might have expected to…
Figures released last week showing almost 5 million people are waiting for hospital treatment in England, with more than 430,000…
With the UK hosting the UN climate change conference Cop26 later this year, it’s perhaps timely to look at how…