NHS England’s decision to order a rapid evacuation of 15,000 beds, driven from the top down, is unprecedented in normal…
Community care and the birth of the internal market Today’s discussions on the crisis in social care – the heavily…
The day after the government signed into law a settlement in cash for the NHS of £33.9 billion over the…
Launching pilot issues in January 2019, then our first full edition in April, The Lowdown has been bringing a new supply of news and analysis about our NHS for the public and NHS staff. By alerting people and helping them to stay informed about what's happening to our NHS we believe that together NHS supporters
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What is a PCN? A primary care network (PCN) consists of groups of neighbouring general practices that agree to work…
Sylvia Davidson / Paul Evans ● The new Trade Bill gives Parliament little say over future trade deals according to…
Another winter, another set of broken records for the NHS. A&E waiting times for December hit their worst level on record, with…
The strange world of US health care offers us a combination of horror stories to remind us how much we…
Election manifestos are not the place to find detailed health policies, but they do give an insight into how the…
The NHS market : a catalogue of failures (2013-19) The history of outsourcing in the NHS is marked by a…