The weather finally turned colder, and government attention finally flickered back to pressure on health and care services. The NHS Confederation urged the government to implement its Covid-19 Plan B before the NHS was overwhelmed...
Two House of Commons committees published the first in-depth report into the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and found it was severely lacking, despite the success of the vaccine roll-out. Chief medical officer professor...
The Conservative Party conference was on. Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid launched a review of health and social care leadership, led by an ex-army leader. NHS managers and unions were not enthused. The government...
Scotland launched its coronavirus vaccine passport app, with Wales poised to follow as Covid-19 death rates started to rise again. The King’s Fund showed that NHS waiting lists and times are longer in poor areas...
The NHS appeared to be heading into an autumn crisis, with hospitals and ambulances in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland calling on the army to provide additional medics and drivers as they looked to cope with...
As more English hospitals moved to Opel 4 or ‘black alert’ and Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths ticked up again, prime minister Boris Johnson unveiled his Plan A for controlling the pandemic this autumn. Plan A...
Really, there was only one thing in the news this week, and that was prime minister Boris Johnson’s decision to introduce a new tax, initially via an increase in National Insurance contributions, to fund the...
Two organisations representing NHS providers joined calls for Number 10, the Treasury, and the Department of Health and Social Care to agree more funding for the NHS in this autumn’s spending review. Papers reported that...
Parliament might not be sitting, but the politics of the NHS are still active. This week, the Nuffield Trust called for “realism” in discussions between Number 10, the Treasury, and the Department of Health and...
With waiting times still in the news, NHS England has asked acute trusts across England to report on staffing gaps. Vaccine effectiveness is back in headlines, with a new report published from the University of...
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