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…
The campaign to halt plans to axe half of the community hospital beds in north Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent,…
Catering staff at Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust are the latest to vote for strike action in a growing…
Backlog maintenance bills across England’s NHS have now reached almost £6 billion, with more than £3 billion of this linked…