NAO tries to make sense of New Hospitals Programme
The key Tory manifesto promise to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 was always implausible to all but the most … Read more
Infrastructure problems
Problems mount for New Hospitals Programme
Concerns over the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) have been growing in recent months, since NHS Providers warned that it was on … Read more
Leamington ‘megalab’ faces closure
The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa, which opened in the summer of 2021 at a cost of up to £1billion and … Read more
To get NHS out of this hole – stop digging
In ten years from 2000 a decade of sustained investment by a New Labour government managed to repair much of the damage … Read more
How can new diagnostics hubs cope with staff shortages?
Nineteen more locations have been announced for Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) by the Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay, which takes … Read more
High risk strategy as NHS backlog bills keep growing
The bill for “backlog maintenance” in England’s crumbling NHS has more than doubled in the past six years to a massive … Read more
Heatwave pushes NHS to ‘tipping point’ as hospitals and ambulance services declare black alert
A spike in Covid absences and the extended heatwave have left NHS hospitals and ambulance services struggling to cope. The … Read more
NAO investigates as ‘new hospitals’ promise now certain to be broken
Amid the turmoil of the change of health secretary and chancellor there is another major question mark over the credibility … Read more
Further delays expected for promised ‘new hospitals’
The government has cut back the funding for eight promised ‘new hospitals’ once again, according to a report by the … Read more
More than 100 trusts bid for ‘massively oversubscribed’ New Hospitals programme
HSJ reports that nearly two thirds of NHS trusts in England have submitted bids to the government’s ‘massively oversubscribed’ hospital … Read more