John Lister comments – Never has there been a clearer argument for the proper integration of NHS services and integration of NHS with local government services than the current Covid-19…
…difference. One common factor between the HFMA and the NHS Confederation (which represents commissioners as well as providers) is their fear for the financial squeeze to come. The HFMA bluntly…
…Hackney, east London looks set to ink a further five-year contract for ‘soft facility’ management with Danish-based multinational ISS later this month (July) without a competitive tendering exercise. Citing a…
…community health services for NHS Suffolk. Serco was to provide community and specialist nursing, the management and operation of community hospitals, speech and language therapy, specialist children’s services and equipment…
The latest available NHS England figures (September 3) show that of available beds open overnight, an undifferentiated 110,000 beds of all types (general and acute, mental health, maternity, Learning Difficulties)…
…compared to the month before lockdown, raising concern that vulnerable people were released into the community before they were ready. A letter from NHS England Chief, Simon Stevens on March…
Every crisis represents an opportunity for someone, and covid-19 is no different, with proponents of digital tech enjoying ever-greater success in opening up the NHS to commercial interests keen to…
…beds, and community and primary care services saddled with extra, unfunded, demand. University Hospitals Leicester and local commissioners have now plunged into a consultation on a gigantic but unconvincing Pre…
…during the pandemic. On July 31 an NHS England letter to trusts and commissioners urged them to include use of private hospitals as part of their plans to restore previous…