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,…
Responding to the desperate situation in the NHS, the Prime Minister announced in his first major speech of 2023 that…
With the waiting list of patients waiting for planned NHS care at over 7 million, up from 4.4 million before…
Recent moves by Babylon Health raise more questions on how long the company will remain a partner to the NHS,…
BBC news programmes on July 22 included a prominent story on the increase in numbers of patients paying privately to…