Winter crisis starts early, as Trust chiefs urged to lobby Tory MPs
It’s not even winter yet, but the NHS is already in a major beds crisis and bracing for the worst … Read more
Funding
NHS to face unprecedented funding squeeze to 2025
HSJ reports that the NHS in England is set to face a multiyear funding squeeze for the first time since … Read more
Can we afford cuts to health spending?
As Rishi Sunak considers a tightening of public sector spending, evidence of the cost of ill health to the nation’s … Read more
Will Hunt steer the NHS to towards more austerity?
With the current occupant of Number 11 Downing Street set to unveil a ‘fiscal event’ at the end of this … Read more
Cap on care costs could be delayed
The introduction of the cap on care costs, part of a reform of adult social care promised by both Liz … Read more
Now NHS faces £20bn-plus budget gap
The Lowdown is running out of vocabulary to sum up the situation confronting the NHS, as each revelation on the … Read more
Latest policy ideas on social care: up to the challenge?
The social care system in England is in a state of crisis. The sector is struggling to recruit and retain … Read more
NHS faces ‘double whammy’ as energy crisis bites
Health service leaders are pressing for extra government support, as the NHS faces up to the two-pronged impact of a … Read more
Worst-ever crisis set to get worse
The elephant in the room during much of the interminable and vacuous “debates” between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak competing … Read more
Experts warn that the cost of living crisis will add strain to ‘creaking’ NHS
Healthcare professionals warn that the cost of living crisis will add further strain to an already imperilled NHS this autumn, … Read more