…being given a greater role in the health service that caused most concern while she was health secretary, a stance which may yet resurface in her latest role. Shortly after…
The RCN’s latest survey on workplace staffing levels in the NHS offers sobering evidence of how one of the Tories’ 2019 manifesto commitments – to employ 50,000 more nurses by…
…providers and commissioners to work more closely alongside councils and experiment with new ways of working. Pilot projects were set up. Local areas were asked to come up with their…
…to free up NHS commissioners to decide the circumstances in which they should use procurement, subject to a ‘best value’ test to secure the best outcomes for patients and the…
…Sussex health chiefs to offer a five-year patient transport contract to South Central Ambulance Service. The failure of Medi 1 is the latest in a long line of failed companies…
…bed figures for the three months to March 31 show 96,000 beds available in England, of which just under 80,000 were occupied, compared with 102,000 beds open and over 90,000…
…back, with the implication that primary and community services and mental health might be expanded, although there have never been any details or commitments. The proposed acute service reductions were…
…latest change of ownership many patients in Operose’s London GP practices will have been bundled through three different profit-seeking companies since 2021. There were loud protests and legal challenges in…
…and young people; learning disabilities and autism; cardiovascular disease; stroke care; diabetes and respiratory disease. Clearly some of these are potentially complex policy problems, and will inevitably also feature in…