…in 1983 to define the role of managers and tipped the balance of power in their direction. The issue remains serious, with the latest patient safety scandal surrounding maternity practices…
…2030, with a further eight completed later. In November, the all-party Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published an even more stinging report, stating that it had no confidence that Government…
…the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013. These can be revoked with the stroke of a ministerial pen.” So the competition regulations can be…
Martin Shelley comments – It’s hard not to see the 24/7 transmission of disinformation swirling around the covid-19 pandemic – promoting the unhinged worldviews of lockdown sceptics, anti-vaxxers and covid…
…pay was subject to a prolonged freeze, prompting a 2013 warning from the regulator Monitor that appears strikingly prophetic ten years later: “The wage freeze from 2010/11 to 2012/13 and…
…communities, with the NHS still not including ambulance or community services, and with primary care very much separately controlled. But as services have since been brought together, the competitive market…
…2021/22,” and already required a “total efficiency from NHS systems” of around 5% (£5.6bn). On top of this the latest plans seek further “savings” of just £6.4bn in the next…
…failure, and 20 years on the years of austerity have stripped away most of the veneer of autonomy and freedoms, while the latest reorganisation of the NHS dismantled much of…
…site openDemocracy last month revealed that customer service staff from holiday company Hays Travel, working as subcontractors on Serco’s test and trace operation, complained of insufficient training being provided. One…