…outsourcing, a competitive market system in which local commissioning groups were forced to put an ever-growing range of clinical services out to competitive tender. Lansley’s fundamentalist neoliberal supporters gleefully hailed…
…could further undermine the role (and finances) of existing local surgeries. This new initiative from health secretary Sajid Javid follows on from his comments last autumn blaming overloaded and under-resourced…
…achieved after various arguments were resolved. And influential stakeholders combined with opposition peers to pass valuable amendments in a whole raft of areas as diverse as virginity testing, display of…
…months my approach to the Information Commissioner resulted in an instruction to NHS I to respond which they failed to do. The Commissioner is to investigate them when they have…
…the Treasury to commit to the resources needed to recruit and train additional staff. And the hollow claim by the Johnson government to have ‘fixed’ social care is almost comically…
…hospital works commencing in 2024 – risk no longer being feasible. Having reviewed the key programme milestones, we now assume construction of the main hospital works can only commence in…
…to be open to have meaningful negotiations and have put our opening offer on the table. How can we negotiate when they won’t put a number on the table?” …
…funding come from? Whether or not proper funding of the NHS is possible always comes back to the political preferences and priorities of the government, where they choose to land…
…care into the community. To enable this, there is an ambitious target of growing the number of staff working in mental health, primary and community care by 73% by 2036/37….