Chancellor Philip Hammond made a point of ‘hamming it up’ for the Tory gallery during his budget speech this afternoon, pausing frequently to allow clearly pre-planned cheers and cries of […]
The Mental Health Act (MHA) allows for the detention of people with a mental health disorder for their own safety or that of others – but tragically, for some that detention […]
In spite of public anger over the absence of Transport Secretary Chris Grayling today as a major increase in rail fares was announced, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has refused requests […]
Jeremy Hunt spoke to the Tory conference in Manchester today about the NHS. It was a bizarre spectacle. Hunt gave the Tories the credit for the fact that we have […]
I don’t always see eye-to-eye with Roy Lilley (a fact I suspect troubles him not at all) and I certainly wouldn’t agree with his suggestion that CCGs be responsible for […]
You couldn’t make it up. Stafford hospital was placed into administration by the government for supposed financial ‘unsustainability’, in spite of the Trust being ahead of financial targets agreed with […]
On the day of the publication last week of Sir Bruce Keogh’s report (heavily and utterly misleadingly trailed by right-wing media and commentators) into 14 NHS Trusts, Health Secretary Jeremy […]
Please share very widely. We need accurate information out there to counteract the nonsense. They’re at it again. Well, to be more precise, they never stopped – but yet again […]
Just been listening to a piece on BBC Radio 5 Live about ambulance waits at Accident & Emergency (A&E) departments – the phenomenon whereby ambulances are unable to discharge patients […]
I came across three pictures this morning that speak volumes about this government – about its deceptiveness and its real agendas. The first, from the PCS union via Sue Jones’ […]