You couldn’t make it up: an NHS England press release on September 10 really did say “people will be able…
GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major…
They are at it again. Almost two years after The Lowdown reported East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), one of the…
Without announcing any details, the new Prime Minister has made his opposition to privatisation plain. And yet he arrives at Downing Street to find a Labour health plan, which, according to a LowdownNHS analysis, has eight of 20 headline commitments that depend on private companies to deliver them. We looked at 20 headline policy commitments
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As Baroness Casey takes on the question of who should pay for care directly to the public, which way will the Burnham government head on social care, and how long will it take? Before entering power, the Labour manifesto included key elements of a far-reaching Fabian/Unison proposal for a national care service, including national standards and
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In the Commons debate on the chronic problem of “corridor care” in the NHS, there was no shortage of words on what the problem is, and how unacceptable it is from the points of view of patients, staff and the wider NHS system, even if there are disagreements on how it was caused and how
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Lowdown investigators have continued their quest to establish how cash savings are being sought, and the implications for services across…
On June 1 patient-led campaign group Just Treatment, and social justice organisation, Global Justice Now (GJN) issued a legal challenge…
The Lowdown has, for some time, been asking questions about how plans to make savings have affected staff and services during 2025/6.…
Thanks to observant local readers of Lowdown in Protect Our NHS Bath and North East Somerset for drawing our attention…