Spire Healthcare has stated that it is “cautiously optimistic” that trading and profits will bounce back to 2019 levels after…
While most of the NHS battles to catch back up with a still-growing backlog of patients waiting for elective treatment,…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) began life in November 1992, two years after the enforced departure of Margaret Thatcher, and just months after John Major stunned the country by winning a surprise Tory election victory over the Labour Party led by Neil Kinnock. Chancellor Norman Lamont delivered an Autumn Statement which announced: “…the Government have
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Private health bosses and analysts do not share the conviction of many campaigners that the new NHS White Paper and…
Campaigners against privatisation of the NHS have written to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, questioning…
Privatisation and marketisation through competitive tendering and outsourcing have been ongoing in the NHS and the public health sector for…
John Lister looks at three recent studies that prove what many of us believed to be the case. The Covid…
According to the HSJ NHS England has invoked a ‘surge’ clause in its Covid contracts with private hospitals and given…
John Lister comments – Claims by Matt Hancock, Simon Stevens and other senior figures from NHS England that the private…
While the NHS heads towards the threatened second wave of Covid infection with inadequate funding, as we pointed out earlier…