The New Dark Age

8 July 2020 — The Lowdown

Boris Johnson promised to “fix social care once and for all”. After the last election, he backed this up with a pledge to provide a plan for solving social care within a year. We are still waiting for his plan, but in this week’s Lowdown, we show that there are more reasons than ever to leave behind an era of failed market based-solutions and build-up public provision.

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Here is this week’s Lowdown,  on PDF and our one-stop roundup

• • • Expensive failures could cost lives
    • Could a national care service help solve the social care crisis?
    • Sizing-up Johnson’s builder credentials
    • Homerton Hospital: trust board sticks with outsourcing giant
    • Celebrate the NHS and then protect it
    • Will NHS England block plan to halve Epsom bed numbers?
    • Top NHS managers want post-Covid changes – but not much of it
    • £1m to set up lab project – but still no business case

With thanks and best wishes
Paul, John, Sylvia, Molly & Martin
Lowdown team

NHS Support Federation