hospitals Articles

NHS crisis, what NHS crisis? Take your pick. Accident and emergency, under-staffing, or any other local or national health crisis you can think of. In the next five years we can expect to lurch from one crisis to another. It is vital we understand their underlying...

We all know the National Health Service is in trouble thanks to the top-down reorganisation the Conservatives swore they would not force through before the general election in 2010. In trying not to be the nasty party intent on letting the private sector run our NHS,...

It is the poor – those for whom Labour claims to fight the hardest – who are the greatest victims of low-quality public services Public service reform has long been derided by some on the left as unnecessary, technocratic and harmful to public sector workers. Worse...

This week we heard Jane Ellison, the public health minister, admit that the Coalition government has lost day-to-day control of the NHS. This supports the research conducted by the Labour party into the state of NHS finances that showed one in three trusts in...