The NHS has come full circle and started round again on its efforts to deal with trusts and commissioners that…
Guidance recently issued by NHS England could lead to entire networks of diagnostic imaging services being run by the private…
A new analysis shows that the NHS will be unable to get to grips with post-pandemic health challenges or…
While commentators and campaigners debate the new government White Paper, another “White Paper” on reorganising the NHS has emerged from…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) began life in November 1992, two years after the enforced departure of Margaret Thatcher, and…
The phrase ‘incomplete pathways’ – NHS-speak for waiting lists – didn’t feature in the four-step roadmap offered up by the…
Private health bosses and analysts do not share the conviction of many campaigners that the new NHS White Paper and…
Ministers and NHS management are becoming increasingly dependent on costly private sector management consultants to do the work that managers…
Privatisation and marketisation through competitive tendering and outsourcing have been ongoing in the NHS and the public health sector for…
30 years of marketisation The government’s new White Paper setting out plans for a new top-down centralising “reform” of the…