John Hutton signed off thirteen NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) building projects as a Labour health minister in 2002 (see…
King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has been chronically financially challenged for many years now. So seriously challenged we might have…
According to NHS England, more than half (23) of the 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in charge of commissioning services…
Following on our recent Lowdown report on the chaos of the New Hospitals Programme (NHP), there are more signs that…
The prevailing aura of chronic, shambolic failure hangs over the government’s much-vaunted “New Hospitals Programme,” a brainchild of Boris Johnson,…
As the promises made by Rishi Sunak and his ministers back in January fade further into the past, they gradually…
The key Tory manifesto promise to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 was always implausible to all but the most…
Comment by Richard Bourne A January HSJ article has confirmed what trade union representatives and Labour MPs have repeatedly argued:…
Concerns over the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) have been growing in recent months, since NHS Providers warned that it was…
The government announcement of an extra £200 million to move patients fit to discharge from NHS beds to care homes,…