The call to shift services out of hospitals and build new centres in the community is not new: it dates…
The press releases and planning guidance from the government on establishing Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) make it seem that the…
District nursing in England is in a “dire state” and unless the situation is addressed the government’s vision in the…
Major issues have come to light around the procurement process for a new mental health service in Mid and South…
The Lowdown has heard that some health workers are being warned to brace themselves for “radical” proposals in the government’s…
The push to expand the number of ‘virtual wards’ across England is set to be another opportunity for independent providers…
A lack of investment and workforce planning stretching back years now means that general practice is unsafe for many patients…
Big on presentation and short on detail, health secretary Sajid Javid’s roll-out of the £250m ‘winter access fund’ last week…
The move by the NHS community pharmacy sector to bolster its clinical offer to patients by expanding into hypertension case-finding…
As the death rate finally falls across the country, the government has rapidly switched the advice for the most vulnerable…