Last autumn, the process began of selecting candidates to stand for Labour in the party’s eighty key target ‘marginals’. Out of the spotlight, that process continues, but there are problems […]
London Fire Brigade’s ‘Incident Commander’ Michael Dowden has received huge support on social media after receiving a brutal grilling during the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, in what many feared might turn […]
As most SKWAWKBOX readers will be aware, cynical centrists chanted during last Saturday’s “People’s Vote” march “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn”. Corbyn was in Jordan, visiting refugee camps for World Refugee Day […]
Yet more pressure is piling onto Theresa May with the revelation in tonight’s Evening Standard that she personally vetoed visas for Indian doctors desperately needed by the NHS. Hospital trusts went public […]
There is good evidence that Early Intervention (EI) services in mental health care save lives and money. EI services contribute towards reducing suicide rates from 15% to 1% when compared […]
The latest NHS England performance statistics show that the number of ‘elective’, ie. non-emergency, operations cancelled in our health service in the third quarter (Oct-Dec) of the year reached the highest […]
Small wonder that Jeremy Hunt has abandoned reporting of the waiting-time performance of our NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until at least April next year. The latest – and […]
The SKWAWKBOX continues to have a material impact on the UK’s political landscape and narrative. Over just the last week or so, we’ve exclusively revealed that: outgoing Haringey council leader […]
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 […]
As the epidemic of excessive ambulance waits at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments hits the headlines, BBC News has announced that 76,000 patients were forced to wait more than thirty […]