Labour manifesto pledge to build new hospitals
Almost casually, and with no real coverage in the mainstream national news media, the Labour Party has abandoned its previous … Read more
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Thousands of pests found at English hospitals
The Guardian reports that thousands of pests including rats, cockroaches and bedbugs have been found at NHS hospitals in England. Hospital … Read more
Where is the money for crumbling hospitals?
Last week’s budget gave the NHS’s capital budget, used for infrastructure, a boost of £3.4 billion, but there is a … Read more
More confusion over new hospitals
Following on our recent Lowdown report on the chaos of the New Hospitals Programme (NHP), there are more signs that the organisation … Read more
New hospitals – the chaos continues
The prevailing aura of chronic, shambolic failure hangs over the government’s much-vaunted “New Hospitals Programme,” a brainchild of Boris Johnson, … Read more
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
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
Propaganda stepped up as new hospital schemes are stalled
Hospital trust chief executives are being told to exaggerate the scale of any new developments by describing any new unit … Read more
Questions raised over wisdom of “Nightingale” hospitals
In the late 18th century Russian prince Grigori Potemkin is alleged in popular myth to have built impressive fake villages along … Read more
National Audit Office finds parts of NHS ‘seriously financially unstable’
The National Audit Office has published two reports. The first, NHS financial management and sustainability, looks at the financial and operational performance … Read more