Many people may have been unaware of the existence of the British Medical Journal’s Commission on the Future of the…
Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to its lowest level since John Major’s government lost office in 1997, according…
Could we be in the last days of relative transparency and local accountability in England’s NHS. It has seemed profoundly…
Some of the headlines and reports on the leaked draft White Paper outlining plans for a new top-down reorganisation of…
John Lister comments – Thirteen areas have been given just over three months (to next April) to rebrand themselves as…
John Lister – Two weeks ago The Lowdown warned of plans being hatched by NHS England and local “Integrated Care…
Across England there are plans to merge Clinical Commissioning Groups: according to the HSJ, 86 of the remaining 191 CCGs…
There are a number of issues surrounding accountability, or rather a lack of accountability, for the non-NHS organisations that win…
Privatisation has long been held up as a panacea to the NHS’s problems. The first ‘PFI’ (Private Finance Initiative) schemes…
Campaigners have said they will fight to reopen an Oxfordshire doctor’s surgery forced to close. Witney’s Deer Park practice will…