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…
Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Spending Review has locked the NHS on course for a huge funding shortfall. In December 2022 NHS…
In the face of rising waiting lists government policy has aimed to increase the role of the independent sector in…
The terrible consequences of the lack of front line NHS capacity, in both elective emergency services, is taking a heavy…
A renewed focus on and an increase in funding for public health services is badly needed if the current decline…
As a new year of cash restraints takes shape, John Lister reviews the most recent board papers from a third…