With no long-term NHS workforce strategy on the horizon, the government’s default policy on slashing elective waiting lists – pushing…
The DHSC Annual Report for 2021/22 includes an evasive and duplicitous section on the New Hospitals Programme which is supposed…
John Lister NHS England has come up with a bonzer way to make up for the lack of pay and…
It’s no surprise to find the Daily Telegraph singing the praises of private medicine, but readers encouraged to take up…
In ten years from 2000 a decade of sustained investment by a New Labour government managed to repair much of…
There’s not likely to be a groundswell of enthusiasm for the old cigar-smoking beer-swilling former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke’s idea of…
Back in May The Lowdown surveyed the plans being drawn up for the launch of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) as…
Comment by John Lister – Unlike his predecessor Jonathan Ashworth who was keen to engage and work with campaigners, Labour’s…
The government claims that to pay inflation-busting increases to public sector workers would cost an extra £28 billion: but BBC…
As the Tory conference gathered, one-time Brexit secretary David Davis became the latest mouthpiece for the hoary old argument for…