Concerns over the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) have been growing in recent months, since NHS Providers warned that it was…
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) finally published their annual report and accounts for 2021-22 at the end…
Responding to the desperate situation in the NHS, the Prime Minister announced in his first major speech of 2023 that…
Back in May The Lowdown surveyed the plans being drawn up for the launch of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) as…
While ministers play up the risks to health posed by nurses and ambulance workers striking over staffing levels and pay,…
A survey by John Lister of board papers and other information for ICBs in East of England, London and Midlands,…
Since 2010: Nurses’ real pay is down £4,300 Paramedics’ real pay is down £5,600 Teachers’ real pay is down by…
The government claims that to pay inflation-busting increases to public sector workers would cost an extra £28 billion: but BBC…
Royal College of Nursing members will strike on 15 and 20 December at employers across England, Northern Ireland and Wales…
A year ago Jeremy Hunt was sitting on the back benches, and as chair of the health select committee was…