As winter approaches, with the days growing shorter, the warnings from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine are growing more…
When The Lowdown first started in early 2019, the backlog maintenance bill for England’s NHS was estimated at £6 billion. By 2021, it…
The notorious Labour Party conference bureaucracy may have successfully shunted a Socialist Health Association motion on Physician Associates off the…
The long-delayed Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in Smethwick, West Birmingham, is now planned to open on October 6, six…
The second round of strikes in Colchester has at times has seen well over 100 on the picket line. The…
With 412 Labour MPs and a huge majority in the House of Commons, Keir Starmer’s Labour government clearly now has…
Almost casually, and with no real coverage in the mainstream national news media, the Labour Party has abandoned its previous…
NHS England published a new plan in May, aimed at speeding up the response of A&E services and reducing waiting…
Last week’s budget gave the NHS’s capital budget, used for infrastructure, a boost of £3.4 billion, but there is a…
Privatisation of healthcare results in a reduction in quality of care according to a review paper published this week (1…