The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency on January 30 after the number of confirmed cases spiked. More than…
As we finalise this issue of the Lowdown, UNISON has just announced that it is to suspend its strikes by…
NHS Providers, professional bodies and Royal Colleges have been increasingly forthright in their warnings on the state of the NHS…
The Johnson government has swept to power on the back of extensive promises to invest in and improve the NHS…
The infamous promise by Prime Minister Boris Johnson of “40 new hospitals” has not only been shown to be misleading,…
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust is facing a major inquiry into what is already Britain’s biggest-ever scandal over maternity services,…
One: Matt Hancock, Michael Gove and others have been travelling the country repeating the claim that the Johnson government has…
Matt Hancock may claim that the flawed “taper tax” on pensions affecting senior NHS consultants has been “scrapped immediately” –…
In October only two out of 119 hospitals with a major A&E department met the target of ensuring patients wait…