…The income of one of the leading companies in the sector, Cygnet Healthcare, is entirely from NHS contracts and most companies in the sector gain the majority of their income…
Proof that government complacency in the face of an escalating NHS crisis knows no bounds, and that BBC (and many other) journalists are woefully ill-informed was displayed on BBC Radio…
…cost-effective development by cutting across competition. Selling the centre to a profit-making pharmaceutical company runs completely counter to the original vision.” Liz Peretz of Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public added:…
…… Hospital Discharge Programme … surge funding and non-recurrent efficiencies)”. With trusts and commissioners facing the need for short-term savings, few feel able to look to longer term investment in…
…helped to meet the challenge of Covid for two years, but health spending has since fallen back to £172bn in 2022/3 – still a huge figure in comparison with other…
…a long wait, but only 58,000 additional people (less than 4%) paid to access private care – a tiny fraction even of the 300,000 or so patients waiting over a…
…acute services. The HSJ in August also revealed a hidden 1 million-strong additional waiting list for even more poorly-resourced community health services, among them 75,000 children waiting to access community…
…lack of social care and community health services. A Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) press statement points out that 30,000 is “more than 3.5 times the total number of…
The elephant in the room during much of the interminable and vacuous “debates” between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak competing for votes from Tory Party members has been the dire…