There were no 40 hour waits for ambulances prior to May 2010, and no 24 hour waits in A&E: very…
Reality is beginning to bite for the new Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) as their promises of achieving a financial break-even…
Royal College of Nursing members will strike on 15 and 20 December at employers across England, Northern Ireland and Wales…
With the waiting list of patients waiting for planned NHS care at over 7 million, up from 4.4 million before…
The bill for “backlog maintenance” in England’s crumbling NHS has more than doubled in the past six years to a…
In June the New Statesman magazine published a study of hospitals funded through Private Finance Initiative between 1997 and 2018,…
Airedale General Hospital’s perhaps surprisingly high position in the league table of backlog maintenance bills, at a massive £414m, is…
As Rishi Sunak considers a tightening of public sector spending, evidence of the cost of ill health to the nation’s…
A recent report in the HSJ on the move by Hamza Yusuf, a senior civil servant who oversaw the £37bn…
The Lowdown is running out of vocabulary to sum up the situation confronting the NHS, as each revelation on the…