…Hunt, the health secretary, is selling a profitable and effective company his Department of Health owns. The firm should be kept in public hands and allowed to continue playing a…
…to communicate a commitment to improving quality, broadening access to services and boosting funding. However, recently it has become clear that there is a gap between this intention and the…
…end point of underfunding the NHS over a sustained period,” said Rachel Power, its chief executive. “The consequences for someone having a stroke or heart attack, for example, don’t bear…
…leaders from areas covered by the CEP have been told to examine “difficult decisions” and “think the unthinkable”, including modelling changes which are normally avoided as they are too unpleasant,…
…Commissioning Group is in the process of trying to establish what would be one of a very small number, or perhaps the only example, of an advanced ACO type model,…
A damning report has warned that the increasing use of private ambulances is leading to examples of poor care, including a dialysis patient left to wander the streets. Private ambulances…
…just-legal feints and “creative accountancy” to deceive yet formally comply: redesignations to double-count, cherry-picking referrals for financial or statistical advantage, for example. Full story in The Guardian, 20 February 2017…
…needs to be done. One example is the Cavendish Coalition, a group of 35 health and social care organisations that came together in the wake of the referendum result to…
The Care Quality Commission has published its annual State of Care report for 2022/23. The report is an assessment of health and social care in England. The primary issues that…
…has now been confirmed in the published report of the First Sitting of the Bill Committee on September 7. Responding to opposition amendments seeking to exclude private companies, Argar said:…