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The main issue of concern which was highlighted in Patrick Carter’s report last week was the lack of bed spaces in the NHS and the cost of ‘bed-blocking’ to it – costing the NHS £900m a year. The fact is that we have a winter bed crisis and hospitals do not have...

Social care is in crisis Frail older people in hospital beds is the image which stays with me more than any other from my first four months as Labour’s shadow secretary of state for health. I have visited numerous hospitals up and down the country, and I have lost...

Delegates at the World Economic Forum this week will be talking about the implications of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. The claim is that this revolution is characterised by the combination of different technologies, linking the physical, digital, and biological...

With record accident and emergency waiting times, continuous breaches of two-week wait requirement for cancer patients and NHS trust throughout the country experiencing record deficits – our NHS is not only broken, but in a state of disrepair. The Conservative record...