It was a year ago that Rishi Sunak tried to regain public trust in the government’s running of England’s NHS…
The prevailing aura of chronic, shambolic failure hangs over the government’s much-vaunted “New Hospitals Programme,” a brainchild of Boris Johnson,…
The NHS is attacked on a variety of spurious grounds. Negative statements often being repeated uncritically and ad nauseam by…
Keen-eyed HSJ reporters have spotted evidence of a sharp uptick in trusts’ use of outsourced (mainly “independent”) providers in England…
Keir Starmer and Shadow Health secretary Wes Streeting want to play it both ways. On the one hand Labour has…
Concerns over the privatisation of health services tend to be focused on the outsourcing of elective clinical care, mental health,…
American health giant UnitedHealth made occasional unsuccessful forays into primary care in the UK in the 2000s, and more recently…
The worsening financial plight of England’s 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) is widening the gulf between NHS England issuing demands…
As the promises made by Rishi Sunak and his ministers back in January fade further into the past, they gradually…
November 2024 Birmingham and Solihull Birmingham & Solihull has submitted a plan to break even in 2024/25 on the basis…