…the community”. ‘Care in the community’ can be used as a smokescreen for refusing to invest in hospitals. A comprehensive and safe NHS absolutely needs well-funded hospitals in partnership with…
As the Tory conference gathered, one-time Brexit secretary David Davis became the latest mouthpiece for the hoary old argument for scrapping the NHS as a tax-funded system and opting instead…
…SubCo will come into force on April 1 and include staff from the trust’s estates, sterile services and materials management departments. Full story in The Gazette, 1 March 2018 …
…facilities, sterile services and materials management will be moved to a new commercial company from April 1. The trust wanted to set up the company, which will be wholly NHS…
…providers and requisition materials such as face masks and Covid-19 tests. The health minister, Salvador Illa, said private healthcare facilities would be requisitioned for coronavirus patients, and manufacturers and suppliers…
…much lower CO2e footprint than an elective inpatient stay, for example. ‘Care miles’ are a major factor, with more than 9.5bn NHS-related miles (by staff, patients and visitors) being travelled…
…the number of notifications by drug companies warning of impending shortages than there were three years ago: in 2023 there were 1,634 such alerts issued, compared to 648 in 2020….
…need. In a strongly worded statement, leaders of the major health unions representing staff across the NHS said the growing involvement of private companies threatened one of its core functions:…
…for Health and Social Care admitting only that those numbers “are testament to the strength of feeling within our community” over the planned reform. A Commons debate on the potential…