An integrated care board has ordered all of its 337 GP practices to use a single digital access system and is switching off five rival products to save money.

An integrated care board cluster has confirmed it will permanently close two birthing units.

You couldn’t make it up: an NHS England press release on September 10 really did say “people will be able to walk into their participating high street pharmacy and get on-the-spot treatment for…

Bridlington, Barnstaple and Canterbury, and more? … One reason it has become so hard to find detailed information on planned cuts to local NHS services is that, as soon as any such information…

Bridlington, Barnstaple and Canterbury, and more? … One reason it has become so hard to find detailed information on planned cuts to local NHS services is that, as soon as any such information becomes...

In August the Unite branch at East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) heard that Mark Dunne, one of their leading reps, who had been included in a list of posts to be made redundant, had been effectively ...

You couldn’t make it up: an NHS England press release on September 10 really did say “people will be able to walk into their participating high street pharmacy and get on-the-spot treatment for acne.”...

The desperate hunt for some good news to cheer up private health bosses continues, with the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) getting rather over-excited at the industry’s most recent quar...

One of the bits of business for the reconvened Commons left-over from the shambolic Starmer period of government is the Health Bill (aka NHS Modernisation Bill 2026). Lowdown readers can be excused fo...

Palantir’s contract with NHS England is up for renewal in February 2027, with discussions expected to begin this year. This is a critical moment for us to tell the new Health Secretary: No Palantir in...

One of the bits of business for the reconvened Commons left-over from the shambolic Starmer period of government is the Health Bill (aka NHS Modernisation Bill 2026). Lowdown readers can be excused…

Abu Dhabi wealth fund has its snout in the UK children’s social care trough Councils are spending increasingly obscene amounts of money on private providers of children’s homes and foster care. But ...

Our major new investigation shows the trade in illegal children’s homes involves hundreds of companies – and a quarter of a billion pounds

Child was sent to live in 11 different Airbnbs or hotels and two ‘barren and inhospitable’ houses, as companies profited

One of the bits of business for the reconvened Commons left-over from the shambolic Starmer period of government is the Health Bill (aka NHS Modernisation Bill 2026). Lowdown readers can be excused fo...

GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...

Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children * Princess’s story: the case that highlights scourge of illegal care provision Councils are paying more than £125m a year of taxpayers’ money to place vulnerable children in illegal care homes across England, an investigation has found. The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have uncovered a booming industry of businesses profiting from a shortage of beds for the most at-risk children in Ofsted-inspected homes. Continue reading...

Figures disclosed by 33 NHS trusts show temperatures on wards during July rose above 28C limit set by NHS England

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

RCN calls for more air conditioners as Burnham faces pressure to recognise urgency of adaptation to climate crisis

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

The call to shift services out of hospitals and build new centres in the community is not new: it dates back at least 34 years. JOHN LISTER has been looking back at the archives of earlier campaigns. ...

The press releases and planning guidance from the government on establishing Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) make it seem that the new centres are a solution in search of a problem. The claim that...

The firm selected to run it has previously been the focus of a critical BBC Panorama investigation.

Parent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress and often reach crisis point before help is available – then they face a ‘fight for basic support’, experts say. This is Matilda Davis’s story

NHS England » 100,000 people receive treatment to cure deadly hep C virus on NHS in just ten years

Britain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief

The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge…

Andy Burnham has made it clear in his first couple of weeks in office that his main focus is not on fixing the problems in the NHS created by 16 years of underfunding and underinvestment, but on the r...

Lifetime charge rises to £1.1bn on ‘increased delivery at scale’ while forecast benefits fall to £808mn

Recklessness of the Government’s determination to rely on businesses to provide homes for vulnerable children has been exposed…again

Richard Douglas has a 25-year history of domestic violence allegations

Over the past decade new health secretary Yvette Cooper has taken almost half a million pounds from a donor linked to healthcare recruitment, or from companies ultimately owned and controlled by him, ...

Exclusive: Seven in 10 survey respondents expect services to be reduced or shut, while more than half anticipate job losses

They are at it again. Almost two years after The Lowdown reported East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), one of the capital’s largest and wealthiest mental health trusts, was attempting to cut spending ...

How can Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper make a difference to the NHS in their first few months?

More than 3,000 assaults were recorded in the past year as staff describe the Trust's mental health hospitals as "chaotic and dangerous"

Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows