Privatisation of healthcare results in a reduction in quality of care according to a review paper published this week (1…
John Hutton signed off thirteen NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) building projects as a Labour health minister in 2002 (see…
The Chancellor’s Spring budget is imminent and the message from the public health and health sectors is that poverty is…
Many people may have been unaware of the existence of the British Medical Journal’s Commission on the Future of the…
New regulations will reduce some forms of outsourcing in the NHS, but there are significant gaps which a UNISON campaign…
More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade following 2011 due to a combination of poverty,…
Lowdown readers will have seen the widespread outrage about the latest revelations around Horizon and the Post Office, but many…
Key points: No significant improvement in winter pressures performance data compared to last year Deaths from longer waiting waits are…
New official figures show England’s NHS backlog of maintenance has rocketed by 13.6% in the last 12 months to a…