Social care providers will no longer be able to recruit staff from abroad via the health and care worker visa…
At the start of the year, Lowdown was critical of the self-congratulatory tone of a Wes Streeting speech to Labour…
The Lowdown has heard that some health workers are being warned to brace themselves for “radical” proposals in the government’s…
The recent agreement for two major US private equity companies, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Stonepeak, to acquire the UK…
The rapid pace of change and abrupt lurches in direction of England’s NHS leadership at national level are creating widespread…
The Spring Budget offered little additional support for the NHS or social care, as the government leaned on existing commitments…
Subsidiary companies (Sub Co), spun off from the NHS, are back in favour as part of the effort to save…
The scale of the government’s structural overhaul of the NHS is proving to be far greater than initially thought, with…
Last week’s shock announcement of the big top-down reorganisation of the NHS, with the decision to scrap NHS England (announced…