As performance levels of acute trusts plummets and the winter draws near, with no additional winter funding made available to…
The breathless press releases and media statements at the end of September spelled out a clear message, which some Tory…
Over the last two years, the once secret scandal of NHS charges for anyone unable to prove their entitlement to…
The Lowdown is publishing a slightly abridged letter sent to CQC chair Ian Trenholm by the Campaign to Save Mental…
It has been hard to keep up with and evaluate the succession of announcements of new money for refurbishment and…
The use of the ‘Private Finance Initiative’ (PFI) to fund new hospitals and infrastructure was a nightmare solution most famously…
The NHS’s infrastructure is crumbling and disintegrating – 50% of GP surgeries are not fit for their current purpose, according…
In the midst of summer hospital trusts were making plans for how they are going to cope with this winter.…
A new study in the US journal Health Affairs looks at the impact in US hospitals of financial penalties imposed…
A few days after midsummer NHS Providers is already keen to focus on the problems set to recur with winter…