While NHS England works to tighten the strings that bind so-called Integrated Care Systems to central control and regional NHSE…
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The Care Quality Commission has published a critical report on the independent mental health provider, St Andrew’s Healthcare. The charity,…
The NHS market : a catalogue of failures (2013-19) The history of outsourcing in the NHS is marked by a…
The election period brought a debate on the extent of NHS privatisation – with some, especially on social media, eager…
One: Matt Hancock, Michael Gove and others have been travelling the country repeating the claim that the Johnson government has…
The Labour Party’s promise to “end and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament” has triggered a tetchy…
The British market for private mental health hospitals grew by 4.1 per cent to £1.8 billion in 2018, and could…
The need to halt and reverse privatisation was underlined by the continued fight by staff employed by contractor Compass at…