Electing a Labour government with its close links to the trade unions raises many expectations. The King’s Speech commitment to legislate…
Many campaigners remember the privatisation of Hinchingbrooke Hospital. It was claimed far and wide as the answer to turning around…
In just over a year of publication, most issues of The Lowdown have carried reports on the continued inroads being made…
A number of support services in the NHS are outsourced to private companies, this includes hospital maintenance and a large…
Consultancy firm Accenture is very likely to face “big penalties” after a software upgrade led to the complete shutdown of the…
Healthcare Environment Services (HES) has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of waste from hospitals, including human…
Staff walked out this morning as part of the first 48-hour strike they have taken on this issue. Rachael Maskell,…
NHS hospital trusts have been told to stop setting up private companies and transferring staff into them, a move that…
Full story on Open Democracy, 19 September 2018 NHS trusts in England are setting up wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) in…