In the last issue of The Lowdown (January 19) we reported another instalment of the saga of the collapse of…
There is meagre progress in the Johnson government’s repeated promise to build first 40, and more recently 48 “new hospitals”…
Almost identical reports in the (£) Times and Daily Mail that Sajid Javid “is planning to set up academy style…
Health campaigners in Kent have declared they will fight “tooth and nail” the government decision to endorse a reconfiguration which…
Once again doubts have been raised over the future of emergency and acute in-patient services at Grantham Hospital as a…
An investigation by the HSIB into a patient death has found safety issues in the independent sector For the first…
The social care sector is facing a crisis in staffing, with an estimated 105,000 vacancies, according to the 2021 State…
More than a decade of frozen funding has brought the NHS to a shocking new stage of crisis, in which…
New guidelines from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) – one of the bodies taking over from Public Health England…
Consultants working at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH) – the major trauma tertiary centre for the South East coast…