The latest emergency services data make grim reading: and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine is warning things are set…
The worsening financial plight of England’s 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) is widening the gulf between NHS England issuing demands…
Contributor: John Lister Every healthcare system worldwide, including the NHS, will have to deal with rising costs over the coming years due to a rise in chronic disease and in the proportion of older people in the population. These escalating costs always prompt the question - can we afford the NHS? Most often from people
This year 350 trainee anaesthetists were unable to get posts for the next stage of their training (higher specialist training…
While the 2023 Spring Budget was good news for wealthy people adding to hefty pension pots, informed observers appear unanimous…
10 evidence based reasons for sustained rises in NHS funding – More than expected, but half the sum needed, the…
Back in May The Lowdown surveyed the plans being drawn up for the launch of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) as…
While ministers play up the risks to health posed by nurses and ambulance workers striking over staffing levels and pay,…
The government claims that to pay inflation-busting increases to public sector workers would cost an extra £28 billion: but BBC…