Since 2010: Nurses’ real pay is down £4,300 Paramedics’ real pay is down £5,600 Teachers’ real pay is down by…

There were no 40 hour waits for ambulances prior to May 2010, and no 24 hour waits in A&E: very…

Reality is beginning to bite for the new Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) as their promises of achieving a financial break-even…

A year ago Jeremy Hunt was sitting on the back benches, and as chair of the health select committee was…

Jeremy Hunt’s decision to bring in former Labour MP and cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt to help his government ‘reform’ the…

With the waiting list of patients waiting for planned NHS care at over 7 million, up from 4.4 million before…

It’s not even winter yet, but the NHS is already in a major beds crisis and bracing for the worst…

As Rishi Sunak considers a tightening of public sector spending, evidence of the cost of ill health to the nation’s…

The introduction of the cap on care costs, part of a reform of adult social care promised by both Liz…

The Lowdown is running out of vocabulary to sum up the situation confronting the NHS, as each revelation on the…