New figures from the King’s Fund, calculating the progress of funding for the NHS and social care since the banking…
This week saw the publication of a damning review by the NHS Race & Health Observatory which shows that urgent…
The evidence of a massive increase in people in need of help from mental health services in the UK is…
While the NHS has to badger and campaign to secure even a £20bn down payment on the costs of reconstruction…
The government’s Health and Care Bill has run in to more stormy waters as it continues its committee stage in…
In the last issue of The Lowdown (January 19) we reported another instalment of the saga of the collapse of…
The last three months have seen more worrying reports of the pressure mental health services are under as a system…
Health secretary Sajid Javid’s decision last week to force through another ‘surge capacity’ deal with independent providers, to protect the…
There is meagre progress in the Johnson government’s repeated promise to build first 40, and more recently 48 “new hospitals”…
Lord Simon Stevens, the previous chief executive of NHS England, has tabled amendments to the health and care bill currently…