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…
One: Matt Hancock, Michael Gove and others have been travelling the country repeating the claim that the Johnson government has…
The austerity-driven cutbacks in social care spending that have continued since the 2017 general election have taken a heavy death…
Every year since the NHS was founded spending has gone up in cash terms to cope with rising costs and…
Truth is a casualty in every election, but this time more than ever the NHS cannot afford for its situation…