…local councils finances go from bad to worse and bankruptcy beckons. As the cross-party House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee noted, in February 2024, ‘local authorities are…
…Nuffield Trust, and a new Dashboard on GP services from the Health Foundation. The common message is that after 14 years of under-funding and under-investment, the NHS is in such…
…provide free, non-emergency transport for people who are unable to get to and from hospitals in Medway and Kent. However, patients have complained about missing appointments due to a lack…
…Londoners in its first month, despite them having to switch registration from their existing doctor to receive the free advice. Its backers say it has helped ease winter pressures on…
A watchdog has banned adverts for a smartphone app that promises to let patients “see an NHS GP in minutes for free”. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told the…
…bill so substantially, the deal is expected to free up large sums of capital for the company to invest across its hospital estate. Full Story: Sky News, 25 September 2018….
…private company it needed to make a profit. The company’s finances involved a complex mix of creditors, property investors, bondholders, banks, shareholders and landlords and the think-tank CHPI notes that…
…ways to fund the NHS. The radical move, which would end the principle of an NHS free at the point of delivery, will be discussed at the BMA’s annual conference…
Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds setting up arm’s-length private companies, which health unions fear will turn staff transferred into them into “second-class employees”. Fifteen trusts in England have…