An international private equity firm has bought up a UK-based agency that employs NHS doctors and nurses outside their contracted…
The (£ paywalled) Times has reported that one of the outcomes of Rishi Sunak’s controversial taskforce on boosting NHS contracts…
The digital health company Babylon Health is set to withdraw from the New York Stock Exchange and become a private…
Two weeks ago, the Lowdown took a detailed look at the situation of the private healthcare sector. We were seeking…
According to a recent report in the (£paywalled) Times, Rishi Sunak’s so-called “elective recovery task force,” steered no doubt by…
The private health sector is waging a campaign of exaggeration and disinformation to mislead the wider public into believing their…
Analysis from John Lister The massive 25% leap in NHS spending on private providers in 2020-21 appears to have been…
The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa, which opened in the summer of 2021 at a cost of up to £1billion…
With no long-term NHS workforce strategy on the horizon, the government’s default policy on slashing elective waiting lists – pushing…
The decision by Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) to award a contract to run a well-loved and…