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…
A continuing barrage of misinformation on the supposed boom in private medical treatment as a result of the soaring NHS…
The latest dire revelations of the state of mental health services provided by Greater Manchester mental health trust, which has…
Just one year after they were established as the new “local” bodies controlling health care budgets, and after twelve months…
The key Tory manifesto promise to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 was always implausible to all but the most…
The publication of the first-ever NHS long-term workforce plan in June 2023 received a mixed reception. There was relief that…