…these motivations cannot be reliably reconciled. Profit-led companies have been tempted into compromising care on many occasions, to the detriment of patients. Companies have walked away from numerous NHS contracts…
…the service for ‘cherry picking’ younger, healthier patients. This leaves other GP services to deal with patients requiring more complex care. Babylon’s diagnosis software has also come in for criticism….
…Bed cuts were justified in the past on the basis of ‘a computer model’ which demonstrated our inefficiency in relation to comparator hospitals and therefore indicated we could manage with…
…as the man who saved the corona-economy from a crash, or the man who saved 300,000 corona-infected lives? What would I do differently? I’d certainly sit at the feet of…
…some commitments, but they do not adequately address concerns about resources and support getting to frontline staff and public services. “Many of us on low wages cannot get access to…
…letter to G20 leaders calls for the creation of a G20 executive task force and an immediate global pledging conference to approve and co-ordinate. It urges global collaboration and commitment…
…government established the National Health Command Center (NHCC) as part of a disaster management scheme to focus on large outbreak response and act as the operational command point for direct…
…of April.” available to everybody who needs it” On April 17 Hancock told the Commons health and social care committee that testing was “available to everybody who needs it across…
…infection have led to reductions in diagnostic testing too, especially for lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer-related deaths. Clinical trials have also been paused or discontinued and others…