East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust seems determined to outsource nonclinical support services at Colchester Hospital, 12 years after…
Keen-eyed HSJ reporters have spotted evidence of a sharp uptick in trusts’ use of outsourced (mainly “independent”) providers in England…
Two weeks ago, the Lowdown took a detailed look at the situation of the private healthcare sector. We were seeking…
Analysis from John Lister The massive 25% leap in NHS spending on private providers in 2020-21 appears to have been…
With no long-term NHS workforce strategy on the horizon, the government’s default policy on slashing elective waiting lists – pushing…
The decision by Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) to award a contract to run a well-loved and…
Four urgent care treatment centres run by Partnership of East London Co-operatives (PELC) Limited have been rated ‘inadequate’ by the…
Privatisation of the NHS has been found to correspond to a decline in care quality and “significantly” increased deaths from…
NHS commissioners in Sussex have finally got back some of the money owed them following the 2016 collapse of the…