Healthcare Roundup 6 January 2023
The NHS came under severe pressure over the Christmas and New Year break, triggering a political blame-game over who was responsible for the crisis, and union claims that ministers were missing in action as staff...
Healthcare Roundup 21 December 2022
There wasn’t much sign of festive cheer in the health service, as nurses took part in a second day of industrial action, massive demand pushed ambulance and hospital trusts into declaring critical incidents, ministers took...
Healthcare Roundup 16 December 2022
The King’s Fund issued a government commissioned report on the state of the NHS and concluded that, while the Covid-19 pandemic had made things worse, its problems lay in a “decade of neglect” by successive...
Healthcare Roundup 9 December 2022
The government looks set to respond to a wave of strike action across the economy and public services by making it harder to strike. It has also set up an NHS elective recovery taskforce with...
Healthcare Roundup 2 December 2022
The Royal College of Nursing announced the first dates for strike action, as Unison and the GMB secured mandates from ambulance workers to follow suit. NHS England published its first winter snapshot, showing hospital beds...
Healthcare Roundup 25 November 2022
Ministers in Scotland were forced to deny reports that NHS leaders are considering a two-tier health service in which the wealthy pay for treatment. The NHS in Scotland remains under huge pressure, which was exemplified...
Healthcare Roundup 11 November 2022
One hundred and thirty NHS organisations could see their nurses strike before Christmas, after a ballot by the Royal College of Nursing delivered a mandate for industrial action over pay. UNISON and Unite are also...
Healthcare Roundup 4 November 2022
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard told the King’s Fund’s annual conference that the NHS is facing a tougher time than it did during Covid. Steve Brine, the Conservative MP for Winchester and Chandler’s Ford,...
Healthcare Roundup 28 October 2022
Rishi Sunak became the latest prime minister of the UK. In his cabinet reshuffle, Therese Coffey left the Department of Health and Social Care and Steve Barclay took back the secretary of state position. All...
Healthcare Roundup 20 October 2022
A week of political drama saw prime minister Liz Truss sack a chancellor and a home secretary and then resign herself. Amid the turmoil, fears grew over the scale of the cuts that could be...
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