Out of sight of public scrutiny, dozens of private companies have been awarded contracts to carry out work for the…
The revelation that tens of thousands of samples from Covid-19 testing centres were being airlifted to the US for processing…
Chief executives, frustrated hospital and other NHS staff who are being left to treat potentially or actually infected patients without…
Community care and the birth of the internal market Today’s discussions on the crisis in social care – the heavily…
Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public report The number of private companies that run parts of the NHS in Oxfordshire is…
In just over a year of publication, most issues of The Lowdown have carried reports on the continued inroads being made…
NHS England has now published an exhausting list of requirements for local provider trusts, CCGs and embryonic “Integrated Care Systems,”…
While NHS England works to tighten the strings that bind so-called Integrated Care Systems to central control and regional NHSE…
The German company Synlab has been announced as the preferred strategic partner for a pathology contract worth £2.25 billion over…
The private digital GP provider, Babylon Health, has announced a 10-year partnership with Royal Wolverhampton Trust that aims to use…