The Royal College of Midwives’ latest survey of the state of midwifery departments paints a difficult picture of staff shortages,…
Alan Taman is Communications Manager for Doctors for the NHS and is completing a PhD on the public perceptions of…
The day after the government signed into law a settlement in cash for the NHS of £33.9 billion over the…
Care England, the organisation representing companies that provide social care, has said that it is “crunch time” for the industry…
This week the government gave the final confirmation of an additional £1.5bn for social care in 2020-21. However, council leaders…
The Guidance sets out new financial controls, with the imposition of “system control totals” that attempt to force collective responsibility…
The chronic lack of capital in the NHS is not only restricting the scope of buildings, but also leaving inadequate…
Cuts to the public health budget of local authorities are putting the government’s goal of a smoke-free England by 2030…
As we finalise this issue of the Lowdown, UNISON has just announced that it is to suspend its strikes by…
NHS Providers, professional bodies and Royal Colleges have been increasingly forthright in their warnings on the state of the NHS…