The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was set up by the last Labour administration, under the terms of the 2008 Health…
In his resignation letter to prime minister Boris Johnson last week, former health secretary Matt Hancock said he was “so…
The most damning element of Dominic Cummings’ mesmerising seven-hour testimony before a parliamentary select committee this week – and probably…
As the scale of the disaster inflicted on our care homes and social care by the Coronavirus has become clear,…
The Royal College of Midwives’ latest survey of the state of midwifery departments paints a difficult picture of staff shortages,…
The Lowdown is publishing a slightly abridged letter sent to CQC chair Ian Trenholm by the Campaign to Save Mental…
The French health care system is regularly touted by right wing commentators as superior in its performance to that in…
One in four wards in acute hospitals across England are dangerously understaffed, according to a study by researchers at the…
Full story in The Guardian, 23 September 2018 Health visitors are struggling to care for families properly because they have…