It has been a disastrous new year for our healthcare. Ambulances, stacked up outside our hospitals for hours waiting to offload patients at A&E. Delays in emergency care causing 500 deaths a week. Patients being treated on trolleys in corridors and store cupboards. And, NHS nurses taking industrial action forContinue Reading

Hospital trusts around the country have been merging to create larger trusts.  This is an aim set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. This post describes why we have so many concerns about trust mergers. The plan reverses a process of greater localisation that was introduced in the HealthContinue Reading