One of the six new hospitals announced by the government last year could result in a loss of half the…
Community care and the birth of the internal market Today’s discussions on the crisis in social care – the heavily…
In just over a year of publication, most issues of The Lowdown have carried reports on the continued inroads being made…
Enormous gaps in staffing, availability of capital and revenue funding seem set to stymie long term plans set out in…
Harry Richford with his parents: his death was avoidable With a major investigation still continuing in Shropshire, examining hundreds of…
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New research in the USA has exposed the lack of evidence that; costly and complex data-led attempts to target the…
The chronic and continued shortage of front line acute beds in NHS hospitals are times of highest demand are no…
Performance in England’s A&E departments has fallen to new lows after a decade of under-funding and real terms cuts in…
Management at Whiston Hospital, which only opened in 2010, have applied for permission to install a 2-floored Portakabin in the…