King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has been chronically financially challenged for many years now. So seriously challenged we might have…
According to NHS England, more than half (23) of the 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in charge of commissioning services…
Hammersmith & Fulham Save Our NHS (HAFSON) campaigners in North West London have told The Lowdown of a brewing row…
The NW London row has broken as tensions rise across the NHS over perceived efforts by government and NHS England…
Following on our recent Lowdown report on the chaos of the New Hospitals Programme (NHP), there are more signs that…
It’s one step forward two steps back for a controversial and long-running hospital reconfiguration plan that predates the promise of…
The new year has brought fresh determination to win two quite different long-running battles for fair pay, one in north…
Key points: No significant improvement in winter pressures performance data compared to last year Deaths from longer waiting waits are…
Throughout the year the Lowdown has reported on the major policy topics affecting health and care in this country. While NHS staff worked hard to treat over a million people everyday, the rising waiting lists lay bare the reality that the NHS does not have the capacity to keep pace with demand. The growing crisis
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New official figures show England’s NHS backlog of maintenance has rocketed by 13.6% in the last 12 months to a…