Nearly one million patients in England waited over a month for their scan results in 2024, marking a 28% increase…
Forty years of failure – Private sector contracting and its impact on the NHS, by Dr John Lister, offers a…
Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) strapped for cash continue to see time and money disappear on lengthy procurement processes open to…
By Irwin Nash and John Lister Hundreds of non-clinical support staff are being forced out of NHS employment by East…
The decision by Bath and NE Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to award a contract for the…
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…