Amid the turmoil of the change of health secretary and chancellor there is another major question mark over the credibility…
The government has cut back the funding for eight promised ‘new hospitals’ once again, according to a report by the…
In the last issue of The Lowdown (January 19) we reported another instalment of the saga of the collapse of…
There is meagre progress in the Johnson government’s repeated promise to build first 40, and more recently 48 “new hospitals”…
From the time he took over as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has been banging on about building new hospitals. He…
Hospital trust chief executives are being told to exaggerate the scale of any new developments by describing any new unit…
The latest figures for 2019-20 show that the total NHS backlog maintenance bill has rocketed by 38% in a single…
There will be £1.5bn extra this year for NHS building and maintenance projects, according to Boris Johnson, in his speech…
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the parameters of NHS planning for the future. The NHS “Long Term Plan” has had…