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…
The latest figures from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) make worrying reading for private hospital bosses, with no sign…
People with learning difficulties and those with autism are not receiving the same standard of healthcare as the general population…
There seems to be no such thing as too early to start a consultation in Hampshire, although it seems health…
Carers recruited from overseas are suffering appalling levels of exploitation, financial abuse and threats from unscrupulous employees, according to the…
Patients are coming to serious harm by a lack of regulation of the private companies in the homecare medicines sector,…
One in five children and young people in England aged eight to 25 have a probable mental disorder, according to…
A 15 year workforce strategy is to be developed for social care by Skills for Care, the workforce development body,…
A new Lowdown round up of available Board papers from the 17 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) in the Midlands and…